Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. In order to respond, there are a couple of points I wanted to clarify. Madam Chair, I would be very interested in receiving information from Ms. Kwan about the issue of children aging out. My understanding is exactly that of Ms. Kwan, the member, that the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. May I say that I was quite intrigued by the member's earlier comments about the aging out—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Though the program provides a range of different services and supports, including women-only employment, language support and child care, what is particularly important is the women-targeted mentoring and the social connections. They really create that sense of community and enab

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a number of aspects to your question. First, we are very aware of the risks inherent in technology or artificial intelligence. Partiality, discrimination, is clearly one of those risks. We take steps to avoid that risk and reduce it to a minimum. There is another fact

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would turn to my colleague Ms. Gill to speak about the operationalization of the Chinook system and your question about red flags.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I'm not sure that we have information that could be tabled in the way that the question was asked of us.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the opportunity to participate once more. My apologies for the technical difficulties. No, we are not comfortable with discrimination. However, we are certainly comfortable following the guidelines from the Treasury Board Secretariat. They have established a set

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, we are looking at our evaluation practices, our data frameworks and our policy frameworks. There is GBA+ analysis. We've developed a tool that we're piloting to help us assess systemic racism through our policy. There are some areas that my colleagues in operations

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll turn to Ms. Gill to give us some information on the Chinook system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. I'm delighted that Ms. Corinne Prince is here with us. I know she would like to speak about the francophone immigration strategy we have under way.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. The playbook is something we have under development. It's still a draft. What we're using it for is a bit of a frame and a checklist to help guide how we use digital tools. It sets out a number of points for consideration, from bias to p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question, Madam Chair. Certainly, as the minister emphasized earlier this morning, racism and discrimination are something that the department is taking very seriously. Our staff are trained, and we have all taken hidden bias training. We also have ef

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question. As the minister noted this morning, the events around George Floyd were really a wake-up call for many of us. I think we were awake prior to that as well, but that was really a call to action. We set up an anti-racism task force, which you'v

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of results, there are a few things that we have put in place already, and we also have a number of areas where we've launched work.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, we've received the request. We will certainly do our best. One point of clarification is that Chinook would not be a reason. Chinook is a tool that our officers use. That part of the question wouldn't really correspond, but we did note the rates of rejection by cou