Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was a steady decline of economic earnings?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is that accurate, Ümit?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we'd be happy to table them to the committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The federal government does not provide settlement services to temporary residents.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  People in our business work with over 500 service providers and 400,000 clients a year, so we hear a lot of success stories every day. I would just add, by way of comment on your remarks, sir, that statistics show that newcomers to Canada create jobs and become entrepreneurs at a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No one does it quite like Canada. We have some comparator countries who have somewhat similar programming. Australia does a lot of investment in settlement, newcomer and integration, but primarily for refugees. A lot of other countries invest a lot of money at different levels of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Statistically the newcomer group that does least well with employment is visible minority newcomer women. They often face multiple barriers to employment, including gender, race-based discrimination, precarious or low income, and lack of social networks, affordable child care and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is David Manicom and I am the Assistant Deputy Minister for Settlement and Integration at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. I am joined by Corinne Prince, the Director General for Settlement and Immigration Policy, and by Laura Di Paolo

Official Languages committee  The provincial targets are very recent.

Official Languages committee  Ontario's target has been known for a year, I believe.

Official Languages committee  It should be noted that the provincial targets are not total immigration targets. Their target is set through their own provincial nominee programs, which is in fact the part they control. Ontario's objective is for francophones to make up 5% of provincial nominees. I do not thi

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  You want to know what the provinces' best practices are, but as I just said, the provincial targets are very recent so we cannot tell yet whether a province has been successful. That said, it is very promising that the federal program has changed our express entry program to giv

Official Languages committee  Yes, as I said, about 90% of the funding will go to the communities. Some money will stay in Ottawa, but for good reasons, I think, such as the one you mentioned. We also want to have full-time staff to coordinate the programs with the provinces and evaluate them, record the resu