Citizenship and Immigration committee  A personal thank you for your support of resettled refugees in the Syria movement. You're right. We have had a number of conversations with the minister about sponsorship agreement holders, and we want to make sure that we maintain that appropriate balance. We've continued to wo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  COVID-19 or coronavirus is obviously having an impact on travellers coming to Canada. We'll start with China. As you know, we use visa application centres in China to help facilitate the arrival, particularly of temporary residents. At the end of January, around Chinese New Yea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In Italy, we have one visa application centre. As you know, Italy has visa-free travel to Canada. What's required is an electronic travel authorization, but we do have one visa application centre that's helpful in collecting biometrics. That's in Rome. Because of the actions of t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. Francophone immigration outside Quebec is very important to the department, as you mentioned. I would like to make three points regarding our strategy to increase the number of francophone immigrants in Canada. First, there's recruiting. Destinatio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're in the process of determining how best to implement this priority and the advice we give to the minister. The number 250 might sound like a very small number, but it's quite high when we look at our overall picture of how many refugees we resettle and what Canada does in th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we'll take this question in two parts. The first is that, when the application comes through, the visa officer looks at whether people have sufficient resources for their stay in Canada and what that looks like. The second part to this is continuing to be clear with peo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can do a first pass, Madam Chair. Our lapse when it came to settlement services and the money we spend on this was less than 1%. That's really tight for us, and actually we're quite proud of that because it means more money is in the hands of settlement—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I assume this is on the settlement side, our grants and contributions side.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll get back with exact figures.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have the most recent year figures, but I don't have them since 2014. So, again, we are happy to come back with that figure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there is a proof of funds that is required under the new pilot.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What is required is proof that you can sustain yourself when you come to Canada. We're prepared to look at a number of different documents on that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our advice to the minister takes a number of forms: of things we want to look at, a number of things the department has done in the past, or a number of things that we have done with money from budget 2019 and the way we want to continue to invest in the asylum system. Those disc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We continue to work very closely. We have provided $88 million to the City of Toronto to date. We are in discussions with the City of Toronto now over continued assistance to the city, as we are with the Government of Quebec.