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Citizenship and Immigration committee Not specifically at this point. It's just that more countries should sign up and look at resettlement issues.
February 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee In response to the earlier question, to which your question is now referring, I just want to make clear that out of the $174 million for irregular migration that the minister mentioned, only $17 million of that is coming to IRCC. That's in the budget going forward. The $10 millio
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee In terms of the incremental supplementaries cost, $1.6 million out of that $14 million is for the interim federal health program.That's to fill the space between when asylum seekers claim asylum and when they go on to the provincial system, which would provide health care. The IF
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's right. There are two pieces that we look at: the percentage increase and total federal expenditures are the first piece, and the second is the percentage increase in non-francophone immigrants who settled in Quebec. When you put those two pieces together, the increase is j
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee The formula is based upon permanent residence, so we wouldn't take that into account for this.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I have a couple of comments on that. We're pleased to see $180 million in the budget for compliance. You will recall that the temporary foreign worker program run through ESDC had permanent money for compliance. At IRCC, through our international mobility program, this makes our
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Mr. Chair, I think on a question we can all chime in where appropriate.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Mr. Chair, if I can revert back to the minister's comment, he feels at ease with using both terms. If the committee wanted to follow up and we could get back to you in writing about specifics about legislation, we'd be happy to do that.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'll revert back to the minister's comment, it makes him comfortable using those two terms. He seems to use them interchangeably.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Mr. Chair, I would just say that, to a person, the term the officials use in our daily work is “irregular arrivals”. That's what we use. I would leave it at that, Mr. Chair.
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee Just in terms of broad numbers—and then I may turn to my colleague—in the multi-year level funding that we are receiving in the budget, the total is $747 million. A large percentage of that goes to settlement services: just a little over $370 million goes to an increase in settle
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee That was a commitment made—
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee You're right in terms of supplementary estimates (C). I would just highlight that there's $74 million for the IRB in the budget, which is spread over a two-year period, and that will allow the board to hear approximately 18,000 more cases, getting an additional 18,000 through the
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee That review is ongoing, and we will be providing advice to the minister on that. It was a mandate commitment, as you know, so we're—
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon
Citizenship and Immigration committee I can't say for certain, but—
March 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul MacKinnon