Citizenship and Immigration committee  All of the refugees were moved into permanent housing. Again, we don't track people on an individual basis afterwards, but all individuals were moved from their settlement arrival facilities into permanent housing. There's no backlog or leftover of individuals who were not moved

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I couldn't provide you an exact number because again language wait lists continually change. People move on and off them. We have a pretty focused strategy to reduce the volume of people on wait lists for more than 60 days. The numbers are dropping. We can provide exact numbers t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll never know the exact answer to that question, because in Canada, refugees aren't required to report to anyone when they get employment. We will eventually have pretty hard data through StatCan linkages of the percentages of Syrian refugees who are in employment in any given

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there are existing ones being expanded and new ones being developed. We spend far more than $300,000 a year in our settlement programming on programs to help newcomer women who find themselves in situations of gender-based violence. This is an additional amount of money that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This program is to help women who find themselves in situations of gender-based violence. The programming is generally outreach support for women who find themselves in such situations. It's not in the business of condemning; it's in the business of providing support to women who

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I follow your question, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right, and our portion in that is to provide support to newcomer women who find themselves in situations of gender-based violence, to provide them with access to the community supports they need. That's our role in that broader program.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Language training is provided with the overall settlement envelope. We look at the additional settlement dollars provided in budget 2018 because language training is available to all newcomers, not simply resettled refugees, but they do have access to it. You're also asking abo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. My colleague Ms. Edlund may wish to add to this. I'm not sure if there was a question there, Ms. Kwan, but certainly we would be happy to meet with anyone who has innovative ideas. Of course, the government doesn't provide primary health care; it's a provincial responsibil

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The memo you're referring to makes use of internal departmental projections using a number of different scenarios if nothing was done at the IRB either with regard to efficiencies, or with regard to further funding. In these situations, civil servants develop a number of scenario

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have the breakdown with me, sir, with regard to the remaining precise number of dollars for Syria. I may fail to find that in the next few minutes. Basically, the Syrian funding was very considerable for the past two fiscal years. There is some still remaining this fiscal

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have the Syria funding with me. Generally speaking, the settlement funding increases are driven by the increased number of immigrants in recent years and foreseen in future years in the levels planned. New immigrants remain eligible for settlement services until they become c

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd be happy to provide that information. The SWIS program is growing rapidly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Settlement funding in British Columbia for 2018-19 will be about 13% higher than it was three years ago. We've had increases across the board in most programs across the country. Certainly, in some individual programs, as the Syrian funding declined and other funding rose, there

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we have that data, if people have their pens ready: 21,726 government-assisted refugees, 13,942 privately sponsored refugees, and 3,958 what we call blended office-referred refugees. These are refugees referred to Canada by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,