Citizenship and Immigration committee  The difference between those two categories is that the government-assisted ones are referred to us specifically by the UNHCR versus privately sponsored, but those privately sponsored ones are refugees. They meet the convention definition of refugees.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd be happy to take that as an undertaking.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I give the example of the immigration levels plan that we spoke about. That's the plan that grows to 310,000 permanent resident admissions this year. That was accompanied at the time—I think it was in the fall economic statement, or budget 2018—with the accompanying resources tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What went into the determination?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the government would have been looking at several factors, and I mentioned some of them. They would have been looking at the long-term contributions that immigrants will make, based on historical track record of outcomes, so looking at things like population. We certain

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Government would have heard about sectors that are in shortage, employer groups that are looking to access high human capital talent, and not always high human capital, but often of intermediate skill as well. Then the government would have looked at the various pathways in the i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I might turn to my colleague in the international network on that one.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I'm not aware of the particular study you're citing, but certainly when we're looking at immigration and immigration levels, we look at it from various perspectives. One of the perspectives is that it's a long-time commitment. We're looking at perm

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, the primary difference is that express entry relates to the permanent movement, so for people to become immigrants and permanent residents of Canada. There is a different kind of application process that we're looking at there versus the global skills strategy, where we're l

Citizenship and Immigration committee  May I ask, in which way? Do you mean processing times, outcomes?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We know that with our application volumes, which have increased in pretty much all categories, but certainly in the economic categories, that Canada is a destination of choice, certainly. When we look at processing times we are very competitive with our comparator countries, ce

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Obviously, the broader migration trends that have been highlighted by my colleague and highlighted earlier by the UNHCR have impacts for Canada. They also present opportunities. At IRCC, we are seeing higher volumes in virtually all areas that we manage. In terms of permanent r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon and thank you for having us as part of this study on migration challenges and opportunities for Canada. I appreciate your opening remarks and the sense of the scope of the study. My name is Matt de Vlieger. I'm the Director General of Strategic Policy at Immigrati