Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's important to know that, depending on the job offer and where that job is in the national occupation classification system, the language requirement for the individual in this pilot varies. For national occupation classification system level C and D jobs, we are requi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was a factor, of course. We ensure that French-speaking immigrants and refugees can settle and integrate into francophone communities across Canada, outside Quebec, and that the communities can provide all the necessary services to help them. You may be aware that Canadian H

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're truly blessed in Canada, given that immigration is a shared jurisdiction. Not only is the federal government providing settlement services, but so are provinces as well as many municipalities across the country. We're really looking to see if this community model will work,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly. The settlement component is an important element of the pilot. If I can look just to British Columbia and the concern that the existing settlement dollars may not go far enough, the Province of British Columbia is spending over $100 million in settlement services withi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the settlement agencies that are available to provide settlement services to the participants, it's very important that they can provide the full scope of services. I might use an example from British Columbia. In Vernon, for instance, the main organization there is the City

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The funding for all of these individuals, in terms of the settlement component, is already included in the annual settlement allocations for 2019-20 and 2020-21. This particular fiscal year, the federal government is investing over $780 million in settlement services across the c

Official Languages committee  Let me give you some examples of best practices used by certain provinces. Last year, Ontario created Destination Ontario, and the Atlantic provinces created Destination Acadie. These programs are similar to Destination Canada. These initiatives have been very helpful. These are

Official Languages committee  Yes, thank you. The federal/provincial/territorial action plan 2018-23 includes a component for providing settlement services to French-speaking immigrants. As part of the action plan for official languages 2018-23, which was recently launched by Minister Joly, our department wi

Official Languages committee  As the minister mentioned in his speech, we have created a policy focus, a francophone immigration hub, in the settlement and integration sector, particularly in the settlement and integration policy branch, which I manage. The objective is this. Whether we're working with franco

Official Languages committee  Thank you. As far as complaints to the Commissioner of Official Languages are concerned, discussions are under way between the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages and our department. We are co-operating fully with the OCOL. As the minister mentioned in his presenta

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I would just add, particularly regarding the situation in Calgary, that the local service provider organizations are working extremely closely—more than ever, actually—with the local health authorities, not only in terms of mental health but even, as a specific exampl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our settlement policies require our service provider organizations to provide, especially with the additional funding that has been provided for this particular population—

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that important question, particularly with regard to immigrant and refugee integration. The policy of the department is that if we don't provide child care, transportation, and interpretation services, we likely won't be able to get the clients, particularly the fe

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. That is a huge success story. The department does track refugee and immigrant cohorts over time. I'm very pleased to share that the settlement program evaluation is just being completed, and will provide data on outcomes and outputs of the program over the past

Status of Women committee  I believe it does.