Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not certain. For many, many years the average per capita cost for Canadians for these services has been used as a basis.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The amount for health care costs adjusts automatically, because the Canadian Institute for Health Information reports this as an individual piece of data each year. On our way here, Dr. Saeed advised me that they're ready to publish the estimated cost of the adjustment for the ne

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The health component of that adjusts automatically each year. The smaller amount, the $356, is for social services. We do the adjustment based on inflation, but the amount for health care costs that's reported by CIHI gets reported each year. In effect, because of that reporting,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not aware; it would have been probably more than a decade ago.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's that at any given time for the provinces, or from a provincial perspective, there are five years' worth of decisions that are in play, right? If we pick this year, 2017, then decisions from 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 are all in play. Each of those years will generate a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, roughly speaking, and recognizing that this is an estimate based on one year of data.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To be clear, it's an assessment against the basket of services that we have defined in the regulations. It is direct health care costs plus.... I'd have to dig through my binder to find the list of the specific things in the regulations. There have been misperceptions in the me

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to be clear, it is that each year of decisions in essence generates a five-year profile of avoided costs for the provinces. Because it involved a case-by-case review by an analyst in order to conduct the cost-benefit analysis, we used only one year, whic

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We used a five-year profile because that is the basis of the policy, which is that the assessment is done using the estimated costs over a five-year period for an individual's given health condition.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's more that with those rolling five-year profiles, in any given year, you will have five years' worth of decisions that are generating savings, so your savings will be on the order of $135 million, perhaps as little as $120—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you're a province, you're thinking it's $27 million from this year, plus $27 million from next year—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're probably aggregating it as being roughly $120 to $150 million.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will provide that data.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The input costs in terms of the amount of effort by the department were relatively low.