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Foreign Affairs committee Again, the assessment is done on a country-by-country basis, and at the moment it is not under review.
February 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Foreign Affairs committee I think it's important to give a bit more context, as I was pressed for time in the response. To give an overview of the measures we currently have in place to facilitate the travel of Ukrainians—
February 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Foreign Affairs committee Yes. We are indeed taking a number of steps to support Ukrainians and people residing in Ukraine, to make it easier and faster for them to come to Canada. We announced on the 24th a number of steps to facilitate access to and prioritization of their immigration applications, and
February 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee To add to what my colleague has indicated, we've been indicating and have been prioritizing cases that fall under the one-year window, for example. I think we've seen the cases being processed in a couple of months, not the 30 months that is the average for the one-year window ca
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would say that those conversations happen proactively. There are situations such as the survivors and the plans that we implemented after the Haitian earthquake a couple of years back. As I indicated earlier and as UNHCR stated as well, the focus of the program is, from a res
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee There may be an overlap. It's a bit difficult to ascertain in terms of how many of the cases would be on the UNHCR priority list for resettlement, but we know that sometimes we find that there is a privately sponsored case that would also be a UNHCR-referred case.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee I can certainly speak to the staff who are Canada-based and who go overseas. My colleague might be able to add a bit more on the local side. Certainly each year there's a training program for officers who go out to deal with resettled refugee cases, and a component of that trai
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee It might have been but I'm not familiar, off the top, if that's come across my desk.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think there are a couple of parts to that question. I think the previous witnesses touched on accessing the UNHCR in terms of getting a referral for resettlement to Canada. Again, just to restate what was said earlier, when we do engage with the UNHCR to determine what cases
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you for the question. With respect to Canada's resettlement program, as you heard from the previous witness, the primary focus in the structure is on refugees. That said, there are mechanisms in the legislation that allow for special measures to be taken. We saw that imple
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Marc Gionet