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

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's not in my area of responsibility, but there are provisions for relieving individuals in abusive situations of their sponsorship obligations. That's my understanding.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I did used to have policy responsibility for that area, and there are provisions—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are provisions for relieving individuals of their sponsorship obligations in abusive situations. That's my understanding.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay, we'd be delighted to.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have certainly been working very hard on improving mental health supports. The medical mental health supports, of course, are a provincial responsibility, but we've been increasing our ability to do crisis counselling in cases where newcomers require trauma counselling se

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My understanding is that we have identified Kermanji-speaking interpreters in those communities now, so that we now are able to provide that service in their mother tongue.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My understanding is that, in the places where we resettled most of the Yazidis, we have been able now to identify Kermanji-speaking interpreters.

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

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Most specifically for government-resettled refugees, where we destine people through our destination matching centre, the availability of interpretation services is certainly one of the factors considered. We would try to make sure that we don't destine a resettled refugee to a c

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I said, Madam, we have a very extensive network of service providers across the country that provide interpretation services in hundreds of languages. Of course, I cannot say there are no newcomers who failed to access interpretation service.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They're free of charge.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.