Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think for both, especially for the medical, it will be on a province-by-province basis depending on the eligibility rules for foreign workers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Regarding employment insurance, their eligibility for employment is under another department. I can't answer the question on eligibility.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the principal applicant, we usually issue a work permit for the duration of the offer of employment. If the employment is there for two years, it's a two-year work permit. Spouses and dependants have a open work permits. If the principal has their caregiving job, then we issu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There will be a time limit, generally. It's not yet specified what those time limits will be.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's really on a case-by-case basis, depending on the provinces and the rules that each province has with regard to access and to the fees they require.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know how each province will do it. It would depend on—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the interim pathway, I think in the conversations that we've had, there's a certain degree of welcoming. I think a lot of concern, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, is around what the three-month window means for their ability to gather the required documents and submit ev

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of abuse, one of the things, which I think is in the bit of this consultation report that I mentioned on the website.... I think there's always.... The nature of the employer-employee relationship is a difficult one because the employee is tied to an employer, and the is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As far as I know, I don't have a ton of evidence or specific cases to—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not that I'm aware of. It may be, Mr. Chair, but I don't have that information at my fingertips.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Within the two pilots, the total number of principal applicants is two times 2,750, so 5,500. Ascertaining whether the applicants decide to be accompanied by a spouse or a dependant will be on a case-by-case basis. The capacity will be there to process these applications, but we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a couple of things around those numbers. One is that when we do these ministerial instruction pilots, we're capped by the act at 2,750, meaning 5,500 for both of those occupations. If we look at the annual average from 2016 to 2018, we see that an average of 3,200 temp

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Overall, the number of people who were coming in to work in caregiving occupations in those years was just over 3,000 annually.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for re-inviting us to discuss with you today some of the new immigration pathways for caregivers. As you mentioned, I'm David Cashaback, director of federal economic policies and programs at IRCC, joined today by my colleague, Martin Barry, direc