Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I'm really glad the honourable member has raised this, because, first, I think that's a bit of disinformation. We'll go back to the call line and we'll make sure that's corrected. The commitment that the government made is that we are putting a priority on all our a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could you answer that question, Mr. Mills?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Madam Chair. I'm going to try to work my way through. A significant number of emails came into the department during the time. There were about 300,000. We've worked our way through that number.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have worked our way through all of those emails, which means they've had a response of one kind or another. From an email perspective, that's what we've done in our department. Perhaps I'm not understanding the question well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the processing of the cases, I'm going to divide them into a couple of different groups. If I look at those who had a connection to Canada, those who served Canada in one form or another, we've processed about 14,000 applications. On top of that, we had the commitment

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We look at this in three groups. One of those three groups includes interpreters who came to Canada in 2009 and 2012 and their extended families. We have the first slightly more than 1,000 applications in for those now. Those are being processed. The second group is those who are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're happy to do it. I think Mr. Mills may have an answer for you though.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to thank the honourable member for the question. Is the immigration system meeting its objectives? The answer is no, our service standards aren't being met. That said, two important aspects need to be considered in order to solve the problem. One of the problems we hav

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we have those figures. Dr. Giles, do you have those figures?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have indeed increased the number of staff in the region, but we have also increased the capacity of the system in that region, particularly with regard to biometric data kits. So we have increased the capacity to apply in the region.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you again for the question. In fact, we have sent more people to Pakistan to help refugees.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, we're going to have to get back on that. I don't have those numbers at my fingertips, which of our francophone service provider organizations are participating in the pilot and then what percentage of clients would be francophone under that. We'll have to get back to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wish I had the number at my fingertips, Madam Chair. We will have to get back to the committee on the number of francophone women.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Madam Chair. The program looks at a number of things, and Ms. Campbell Jarvis has highlighted this. One I'll speak about was a conversation I had with a woman in Vancouver who runs a part of this. It was with respect to entrepreneurs, so looking at being able to use this

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, Madam Chair, just let me say we agree, completely, on the need to make sure that these programs are available to francophone women, to francophone refugees, to francophone youth. We know that's happening; I just don't have the number that's happening right now and that we'