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Citizenship and Immigration committee No, it's all internal allocation. It's nothing to do with the $300,000 that you see before you on this; it's a totally separate issue.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I might ask my colleague to give a sense of what we're doing in Montreal.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's part of a broader strategy led by Status of Women. We're getting $300,000 this year—a total of $1.5 million over five years—primarily targeted at settlement interventions for women across the country. We're talking about gender-based violence supports that exist. That's ge
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Do you want to jump in on the specifics, David?
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee In terms of completion, we're doing consultations now, including with parliamentarians, and meeting with a number of community groups and experts across the country. In the next number of months we'd be in a position to come out with the new citizenship guide. In terms of cost,
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee We have staff across the country, so to the extent that it matches up, we're happy to do it.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Of the remaining funds, $3.2 is for processing and $1.2 for corporate and operational support. On top of the $5.8 Dawn mentioned, hopefully that gets us to $10.4.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Do you want to jump in there, Dawn?
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee We can break out those numbers for you if it's helpful.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I can give you the breakdown of the $14 million: in terms of processing costs, it's about $1.6 million; interim federal health, $1.6 million; income support, $8.3 million; and then resettlement services, $2.5 million. That's the global breakout.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's right.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I just want to manage expectations, Mr. Chair. It's a very broad question and I'm not sure if you're speaking about a specific program area, for example, in settlement or about program applications writ large across the department?
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee We could provide a list of the programs that we have at IRCC that you can apply for. That I can commit to. In terms of what got money in the budget and when the deadlines are, that might take us a considerable amount of time to get, but we'll certainly look into it.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee We're happy to meet with them if the committee feels it's worth it. We would do that if that's something you would like.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee For sure.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon