Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I think those are excellent points. Again, I'll come back to the oldest of the ones we're talking about. It's from 2017, so it's not that old. If we look at the Atlantic immigration pilot, what we see is a question of how you build settlement support with the employ

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will table the Atlantic immigration evaluation with the committee. As well, I think we have some important statistics on the current immigration landscape, how many people are staying in cities, how many people are in communities themselves, just as good background information

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'll come back to some of the comments I made previously. In this one, it was the role of the employer, but you can't have the role of the employer without having the role of the community. That direct role and that direct stake in wanting to retain the employees wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am winding up right now. Immigration will also continue to contribute to Canada's economy and communities in the long term. Thank you for that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. We've done two things. One, we have done consultations with communities and provinces and territories as we get ready to set up a municipal nominee program. The second is we've gathered good lessons learned from the existing federal regional pilots. I'll

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If it's okay with you, Madam Chair, I have some quick opening remarks just to set the stage.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will endeavour to be quick. Thank you, Madam Chair. Across the country, communities in rural and northern Canada have told us that immigration is key to their economic and social well-being. It's one of the most important tools to fill labour market skills and shortages. Immig

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the nice things about the Canada experience class is that these individuals by and large are in Canada. That's how we can process these applications and bring these applications to landing in 2021. That's a big difference from what we've seen in other categories. We were q

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're looking at a number of measures in 2021 of things we can do to ensure we will achieve our levels targets. The minister has talked about some of these publicly. We're looking at things like smoother transitions of people who are here on a temporary basis, such as students

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. Off the top of my head, I can say how many scored above 400, and that's over 70% of the applicants. We can certainly get back to committee, Madam Chair, with the information the honourable member has sought.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I understand the question. Is it in terms of distribution?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is it distribution across a points range?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Before, the honourable member was correct that in—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your nice comments on International Women's Day. For those paper applications that are coming in, I'm happy to talk about what we have done over the past year. The pandemic hit us hard. We sent staff home, particularly in our case processing centres. This was not a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We processed or finalized 46,000 applications for spousal in 2020. This year, in 2021, since the first of January, we have processed about 10,000. We think we're really on track to being able to hit our levels targets and to—