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Citizenship and Immigration committee It's quite low.
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee On the first part, the uptake of pre-arrival services is still quite low. I think it's around 10%, but we'll get you information on that. Of course, sometimes it's because people are coming as a sponsored spouse. They don't feel they need it. Other people already have a job and s
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Through websites and through—
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee At the approval in principle stage, they get in writing information about the availability of these programs. Your second question was....
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee International students are not currently eligible for our settlement programming. At this time, we give it to permanent residents only, with a few small exceptions.
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and in concluding, there was a reference to difficulty with information about how we define our programs and what we spend on each. We do have very firm hard data on all of the services we provide, how many dollars we spend in each one and so forth and so on
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee We could provide, I would suggest, some of our off-the-shelf materials, and then if there are gaps, we can attempt to answer them.
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee I don't believe so, based on the survey. The survey results I cited are for all adult Syrians. Later this spring we will have the first database linkages showing us income for all refugees in 2017, which is really the first fully meaningful calendar year related to the large-scal
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee The difficulty isn't so much lack of effectiveness but demonstrating and attributing our program spending dollars to outcomes. This is very hard to do in lots of social program areas. For that reason, and because we spend a lot of our programming dollars on language training, we
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, this is an area we struggle with quite a bit. I was just at a meeting of our National Language Advisory Board. Our National Settlement Council is also meeting this week. It's very much settlement week in Ottawa. They're doing a lot of detailed work on finding that tough bal
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would never be able to say that we have interpretation service available for every single newcomer in Canada. But we have very substantial interpretation services provided through all of our service-provider organizations across the country. You will have cases of a little-sp
January 30th, 2019Committee meeting
David Manicom