Public Safety committee  Yes. This is the myth, and we've been dealing with that on an educational level. Different kinds of refugees come to Canada or persons who would eventually be protected persons or asylum seekers. Those we select overseas and bring to Canada are on a completely different stream an

Public Safety committee  Chair, I can provide that right now, if you'd like.

Public Safety committee  I'll read off the numbers very fast. Overall, the point is this. Asylum seeking in Canada has its natural ebbs and flows, even through the year. It is tied to things like visa regimes, and when we don't have visa regimes, it's tied to world movements, natural disasters, wars, ci

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. This is the myth, and we've been dealing with that on an educational level. Different kinds of refugees come to Canada or persons who would eventually be protected persons or asylum seekers. Those we select overseas and bring to Canada are on a completely different stream an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Chair, I can provide that right now, if you'd like.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll read off the numbers very fast. Overall, the point is this. Asylum seeking in Canada has its natural ebbs and flows, even through the year. It is tied to things like visa regimes, and when we don't have visa regimes, it's tied to world movements, natural disasters, wars, ci

Public Safety committee  As with any interdepartmental task force, the whole concept of ensuring that we are working together, that our plans are well known and well devised, and that we respect each other's individual operational needs, individual communication needs, policy needs, housing needs, and so

Public Safety committee  The key to this from our perspective is allowing all asylum claimants to get their work permit faster and be able to enter the workforce if they have to. At the same time, we work with community organizations as part of our regular outreach, and we do that across Canada so partn

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As with any interdepartmental task force, the whole concept of ensuring that we are working together, that our plans are well known and well devised, and that we respect each other's individual operational needs, individual communication needs, policy needs, housing needs, and so

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The key to this from our perspective is allowing all asylum claimants to get their work permit faster and be able to enter the workforce if they have to. At the same time, we work with community organizations as part of our regular outreach, and we do that across Canada so partn

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Chair. There are a lot of parts to that. I'll generally answer as quickly as I can, Ms. Kwan. In terms of the IRB, I understand that next week—next Tuesday I believe—the IRB is appearing with IRCC officials so that we can get more clarity on how the IRB is scheduling.

Public Safety committee  The federal government does not provide direct support to provinces for asylum seekers awaiting their claims. The support comes at the permanent resident granting determination process, afterwards. That being said, we have taken various measures to help the provinces and to help

Public Safety committee  About six or seven weeks ago, we had over 6,000 work permit applications for all asylum seekers across Canada in our inventory. That is now almost eliminated, and we are processing in under 30 days any new asylum seeker's work permit that is coming in from across Canada. We are d

Public Safety committee  I'll be very brief. The assistance that the federal government does give to the provinces and territories to help for this population, specifically around the asylum, is part of the overall social transfers that go through any of the housing strategies—

Public Safety committee  No additional dollars. The dollars are with the existing programs.