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Public Safety committee  Part of the answer to that question is that it's not just Somalis, if we take the Emerson example. In fact, there is a significant number of Djiboutians, who are also moving up. The factors driving them may, in fact, be different than for the Somali community, yet the volume of m

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, what we are noticing is that, despite some of the temporary protection lifts the United States has done, there is movement of people, but they are not telling us that these are necessarily the reasons. Some people are saying those are the reasons. We also don't know what o

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As Mr. MacKinnon was explaining, there is a combination of factors. We do regular reviews through our department on country conditions of all countries around the world in terms of refugee movements. We are members of the UNHCR, and we are working with members of the UNHCR. We wo

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Part of the answer to that question is that it's not just Somalis, if we take the Emerson example. In fact, there is a significant number of Djiboutians, who are also moving up. The factors driving them may, in fact, be different than for the Somali community, yet the volume of m

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Public Safety committee  No, the discretion of the minister to do that is exclusively for those who cross through the Lacolle situation. We are processing most other asylum claims across Canada either completely at the port of entry, and they're issued their IFH certificate, or we are processing them inl

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Public Safety committee  It comes down to whether the individuals actually choose to move. Again, historical patterns of migration movement across Canada from the United States exist. We know that. We have our regional footprints, regional infrastructure, and regional offices set up, and we are staffed a

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Public Safety committee  Correct, specific people are moving across specific areas, as well as all kinds of nationalities. All nationalities make asylum into Canada. There just happen to be populations that tend to move more, for a variety of world factors, world reasons, such as war, as I explained.

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the discretion of the minister to do that is exclusively for those who cross through the Lacolle situation. We are processing most other asylum claims across Canada either completely at the port of entry, and they're issued their IFH certificate, or we are processing them inl

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It comes down to whether the individuals actually choose to move. Again, historical patterns of migration movement across Canada from the United States exist. We know that. We have our regional footprints, regional infrastructure, and regional offices set up, and we are staffed a

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Correct, specific people are moving across specific areas, as well as all kinds of nationalities. All nationalities make asylum into Canada. There just happen to be populations that tend to move more, for a variety of world factors, world reasons, such as war, as I explained.

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Public Safety committee  We do have those numbers, indeed. We can provide them.

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Public Safety committee  It will probably come with the package of all the other data, I suspect.

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald