Citizenship and Immigration committee  For those who are outside of Canada and would like to be here for the fall session, as I indicated, a number of visa application centres are now reopening abroad, so biometrics collection will not be an issue for those that have reopened. For those that haven't reopened, we're

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For those workers who are already in Canada, we've put in place measures to make sure that those with closed work permits can move to a new job. We've put exceptions around that and we have implied status during the interim period so they can start working quickly. Temporary for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. The next normal is proving to be a bit challenging. We looked at our lines of business in different categories, and one is that we worry about those newcomers, temporary foreign workers, other workers, visitors who are already here in Canada. We've put a number of m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I think people may have been a little carried away with their words as part of that proposal. We anticipate an increase in applications once the crisis has abated and once we return to whatever the next normal might look like. Applications have been down during thi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As the minister indicated, we'll have a better update in the fall. I think it's safe to say it's doubtful we are going to meet 341,000. It's difficult to say what an estimate might be, given so many uncertainties on travel plans, so many uncertainties in other countries that affe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for the kind wishes for National Public Service Week. We really appreciate that. The government announced a week or so ago that it had added additional exemptions for those coming to Canada to reunite with their Canadian spouse for the most par

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Currently about 71% or 72% of our employees are working either from home or in the workplace. The number working in the workplace is quite small, only about 2% or 3% of our employees. We are now beginning the process of bringing people back into the work site and, as you can ima

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Both of those are excellent questions. I will go first to the question on family reunification. We are working to identify a good path. We're continuing to process applications in the meantime. The only applications that we put a pause on are temporary resident visas, and the r

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, we work closely with our provincial counterparts. The additional transparency in the Ontario program would be the responsibility of the Province of Ontario. I would add that we have continued with express entry draws throughout this period. We've done some rather large

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, at this time we're not looking to make changes to the levels planned that the minister announced on March 12. I believe the minister indicated this in response to another question. We are thinking about next year's levels plan. We started consultations with province an

Human Resources committee  Yes, as the minister indicated, we now have done one ceremony virtually, and we are looking at making sure we have plans in place to be able to proceed with more of those ceremonies.

Human Resources committee  Yes. I am happy to say again that we do not consider CERB to be social assistance for the purposes of immigration, so that should not affect applications.

Human Resources committee  Our missions remain open abroad. A lot of our staff has been assisting colleagues at Global Affairs in repatriating Canadians on those flights. However, what is a patchwork abroad is our visa application centres. Some may be open for only very limited functions such as biometrics

Human Resources committee  We're happy to get back to the committee, Mr. Chair.

Human Resources committee  I have the agriculture numbers in front of me. Other numbers will be down considerably to what they have been in previous years, given difficulties travelling. No, I don't have those exact projections in front of me.