Citizenship and Immigration committee  A big part of the program is compliance. We provide money through these supplemental estimates to ESDC to go out and do on-site inspections of employers. At IRCC, we also do some audits ourselves of the employers across the country. Through this money, we're also looking at advan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I can give some of that answer, and on some we'll probably have to get back to you. In terms of the IMP work permits, in 2016 we had just about 210,000 issued. Out of that 210,000, about 75,000 were employer-specific work permits and 133,000 were open work permits. I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to be clear, Mr. Chair, all of those work permits through the IMP would be exempt from the LMIA, but we'll have to follow up on the NOC code piece.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe our colleagues from operations want to speak to that, but we have had an increase in citizenship applications.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There was one investment that I do recall. We can get the particulars for the committee. I know that Minister Goodale went to Manitoba back in the winter—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —and there was an investment given to the local town, I think. We can get that information for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our support in terms of settlement starts when the person attains protected status. You're correct that we do not fund directly folks who are waiting for that status. The system has been such that it's the provinces who do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I must say, I'm not familiar with the bill. We're happy to look into that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we review the situation in the U.S. vis-à-vis the safe third on a regular basis. We have done that just within the past few months, and when we look at their human rights record, whether or not they're still a signatory to the UN convention and the convention against torture

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Outside formal reviews, we continue to monitor what happens in the U.S. We look at things like executive orders. Mr. MacDonald spoke about the fact that we regularly have discussions, have meetings with our colleagues in the U.S. We talk to NGOs, to the UNHCR. We take very seriou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's hard to know if the 50% were rejected in the U.S. It's not necessarily the case that the folks who arrive between the ports of entry have a failed asylum claim in the U.S. We'd have to dig into those details a little more. The other piece that's interesting is that if you l

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. In the context of the budget last year, our minister was asked to conduct an independent review. The minister has engaged with Mr. Neil Yeates, who perhaps some of you met. He was the former deputy minister of our department. In what the review is looking at, real

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to say a few words. Mr. Cloutier spoke about this at our meeting last week. Certainly there are lots of conversations going on about different responses that are possible. I think what you're referring to is the concept of pop-up, where suddenly you make a new port of en

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I might just add just a reference, and I'm sure you're aware of this, Mr. Chair and members. There is an independent review of the IRB going on right now. Our minister was asked to do that review, so that comes in—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —and is very much a key part of this process.