Citizenship and Immigration committee As you know, with asylum claimants, there's no cap, and it's difficult to know how many are going to come in. This number isn't—
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee You could argue that. It's challenging to know if that trend will continue or if it's a blip because the visa requirement was quickly lifted, and they were trying to get in while it's lifted.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I can answer that. We've met with the ambassador here in Ottawa.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Approximately two and a half weeks ago.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee They're working very closely with us. They too, like us, want to see a sustainable visa lift with Romania.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee There is a threshold in place.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's not a public figure. Out of respect for the relationship with Romania, we've agreed that we would not share that figure, so that's not a public figure.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's within a 12-month period.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee As I said—
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee We'll look for Bulgaria. It's much lower. The asylum claims from Bulgaria are not concerning, but we'll look for it and share it if we get it.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee For sure.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee We're doing lots of work on it and we're analyzing the zero draft. Our sense at this point is that there will not be a significant effect on the levels because Canada already adheres to many of the principles you see in that zero draft: responsibility sharing, resettlement progra
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee As I said, at this point while we're very involved in the negotiations, we don't see a hit either on level space or on the fiscal framework associated with levels at this early stage.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Certainly as the negotiations roll out over the next number of months and we have a better sense of where they will go, that is certainly something we will look at.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Do you mean additional levels?
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon