Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Mills, I'll ask you to speak to the timeline for the digitization that we've been doing on the paper-based program.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I understood the last question from the honourable member. There were two questions. One was about the timelines and the digitization across the stream, and then the second undertaking was the question we ran out of time for, which was about access to Internet and whether

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll turn to Mr. Mills, who has his finger on the pulse. The international graduate stream is full. Mr. Mills, I wonder if you have the latest update on the other two streams.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly it is a complex and challenging population to reach. There are numerous pathways and perhaps I will speak to a few of them. As the honourable member Ms. Kwan noted, the minister is certainly proud of the so-called “guardian angels” pathway for the essential health care

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. There are some really excellent questions there. Just to take them in turn, with respect to the disparity in how quickly some of the applications are coming in, I think it really does come back to that client behaviour. We know that international graduate

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's certainly a very complex area, and a number of considerations are behind that one. That is a policy choice question, which would be one for the minister.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were 40,000 spaces for international graduates in this particular program. The other pathways do continue, and we know that international graduates tend to do very well in express entry under the Canada experience class, for example. In terms of who may apply to the other

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a good question and one that we are looking at. As per the terms of public policy, people do need to be in status and currently working. However, for those who apply and whose work permit may expire after they've applied, they can certainly reapply, as the honourable memb

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In that particular instance, we would have to look at that particular situation. That's one thing we are considering now. According to the requirements of the public policy, one must be in status when they apply. I think the hope is that applicants would avail themselves of the f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As always in the immigration space, there are all sorts of individual circumstances that can arise. I would need to follow up on that particular instance.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With respect to the language test, we know the capacity and we know that over 100,000 tests have been booked recently. I would say that, for international students, certainly it would always be an asset to have that language result under their belt. Language test results are vali

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The essential workers stream is quite open. The language level is CLB 4, which makes it fairly accessible, and there's a huge range of occupations. In addition, with the way the hours are calculated, many seasonal agricultural workers could actually be eligible. For example, if t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Quebec is, of course, aware of the program. As we know, Quebec has its own areas of jurisdiction, especially when it comes to economic programs, and that's why this special program is offered outside of Quebec. Allow me to highlight an important crit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, if it was of interest to Quebec, that is something that could be explored. We work very closely with our colleagues in the Quebec ministry. We keep them apprised of our developments, and we work very closely with them on their priorities.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I will turn to my colleague, Mr. Mills so that he can provide an answer.