Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I will let my colleague Mr. Mills answer it for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. That's a good question. I think this reflects this whole new line of business for us since COVID, which is uncharted territory. Mr. Mills, would you like to provide further details on the actual process, please?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, that's a good question. One contextual point is that as we have these COPRs, it actually means that the permit has expired a year ago. Quite a bit of time may have passed. In the context of the pandemic, we are wanting to verify that we have the relevant detail to pr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll turn to Mr. Mills if we have that percentage, and if not, Madam Chair, we'd be pleased to follow up on the member's question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With respect to dual intent, it is recognized as the member has noted that it's perfectly reasonable to have a dual intent. Many people come as temporary residents with the hope to stay. The issue, though, is that in law there has to be a strong commitment to leave at the end. We

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do not have those stats at my fingertips. I would be pleased to take that back and see what we have available.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That does sound very familiar, but I will turn to Mr. Mills for further confirmation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a lot of dynamism at play in the system, both in terms of travel as well as the IRCC system. I will turn to my colleague, Mr. Mills, for additional information on that subject.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll turn to Mr. Mills to respond to that on the decision-making piece.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I really like the spirit behind that question. We are pleased and proud to appear before the committee for a third time. We try to provide clear and transparent information. We have a lot of respect for the role of Parliament and of all its members.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Really, we are interested in what the committee deemed useful and look forward to reading the report and the findings. In the meantime, we hope to the best of our ability that we've been able to convey the innovation, the effort and the adaptation that IRCC has undertaken through

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to look back at the precise numbers, but the member is correct. The parents and grandparents program has certainly been through a number of different iterations. We have tried a number of different approaches, and the demand for the program has always been quite sign

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could come back with further details on some of the structure and the approach if that is helpful.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'll turn to Mr. Mills.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. That's a really important question into how we're processing. I'm going to ask Mr. Mills to answer how we're handling that and, in particular, how during COVID we've made some adjustments, which he will tell you about.