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Citizenship and Immigration committee  â€”that work is ongoing in terms of the visa policy framework.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of Mexico, Romania, and Bulgaria, there is nothing in the work we're doing now in terms of the new framework that holds them back. As you know, we've already lifted the visa on those three countries. We lifted the visa based upon the present visa policy framework, so the

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's really a continual review of countries that could potentially be lifted and that could potentially have a visa reimposed, so that's an ongoing piece of work we do at the department. At any given time we're looking at countries in both categories.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't give you countries that we're considering internally. If the country does know we're looking at it, I would not want to share that information before such time as the government makes a decision.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have been 1,948.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have that information in front of me. I don't know if my colleague can cross-reference that to refusals, or not. I don't want to waste your time. We can come back.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be the remainder. I guess there is some abandonment, too.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have been 604, as of March 15.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For Bulgarians, it is 15.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have those. This is fairly recent, as you know. The lift just happened in December, so my sense is that we don't have those figures. They wouldn't even have been heard at this point.

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

March 19th, 2018Committee meeting

Paul MacKinnon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A number of months is the best timeline I can give you. This is a priority for the minister. We're briefing him on a continual basis, so months.

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