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Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have some information here that I could table with the committee.

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The $89-million increase in the interim federal health program represents the department's assessments of net new need this year to address increased volumes and increased numbers of users in the program. It's what's termed a quasi-statutory program. There's a defined set of bene

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The $112 million in the Canada-Québec Accord is the difference from last year to this year. The $490 million represents the baseline amount for this year. It's the total amount the government will pay, at least based on what we know as of today. Each year there are subsequent ad

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The migration policy development program is a grant program that funds various partners in the area of international migration policy development and research. The final tally, if you will, of all the partners that will be funded in 2018-19 has not yet been finalized. That's an o

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Last year, as an example, we funded organizations such as the International Organization for Migration, the Migration Policy Institute, International Catholic Migration, UNHCR—

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Those organizations advance key Canadian priorities in terms of migrants and refugees and also allow the partnering with key international organizations.

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's research and policy advice.

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can speak to the numbers. Within the capital vote, which totals $21.8 million, the amount of $1.3 million is dedicated to the biometrics project specifically. That relates to information collection and verification solutions within the global case management system, which is th

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With respect to the temporary foreign workers, the $2.5 million is part of our ongoing funding going forward, so it is now permanent funding. With respect to the Syria dollars, there is a reference in the main estimates to a decrease of about $58.1 million in funding, which rep

May 31st, 2018Committee meeting

Christopher Meyers