Citizenship and Immigration committee  As we indicated previously, we've provided an estimate of the dollar cost related to the specific individuals who have undergone the assessment for a given set of representative decisions. It's difficult to estimate. As I understand it, from what the committee members have descri

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The threshold is determined on a statistical basis based on national data, so it's not something that the provinces feed into. We have had conversations as part of our fundamental review with the provinces, as Ms. Edlund referred to, following the discussion at the level of the F

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To be clear, it's a bit how you ask the question. Global News asks Statistics Canada if they could quantify the total services provided to persons with disabilities, but we're not assessing it against the total cost of all services provided to persons with disabilities. We're ass

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To our understanding, the United States and the United Kingdom use an approach that is much more dependent on independent decisions by their equivalents of visa or immigration officers. They do not have a threshold-based system the way we do.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for that question, because it gives a good opportunity to clarify this misrepresentation that's out there, which was reported by Global News. As I said earlier, in our determination of excessive demand, we consider only a narrow basket of social services, and so thing

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we can provide is the baselining for the basket of social services that we do assess. That is not a cost based on disability but is the total expenditure on those social services that are assessed as part of excessive demand, which is then divided by the Canadian population.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We calculated the total costs as a baseline a number of years ago, in 2004, and we have been adjusting for inflation since that time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do have data related to these items. On the numbers, the outright decisions of inadmissibility for these conditions are extremely rare, because the practice of the department is to, as we call it, “further”, or put on hold, the application. An individual who is found to have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To be clear, for the cost-benefit analysis, the costs were largely the processing costs to the department, plus litigation costs and similar costs that were imposed on us. The benefit was the estimated savings to provincial and territorial health systems.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll forward that question to Dr. Saeed, because he conducts the medical assessments on those sorts of facts.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd have to explore that more.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have two pieces of paper on the definition of “excessive demand”, and I have the legislative provision. The regulations specify that it is: A demand on health or social services for which the anticipated costs would likely exceed average Canadian per capita health services an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Those are the ones that are included in there. Social assistance or social housing are out of scope for this decision, because we can't forecast whether or not somebody is going to be poor on arrival in Canada. It's strictly speaking health care, plus the immediately affiliat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The estimates are based primarily on the assessment of the individual conditions and the expected costs that those would impose on provincial services. The estimate of savings on the order of $135 million from each year of decisions is what we would expect the provinces would hav