Citizenship and Immigration committee  That could even take up to a month. What we try to do is provide an acknowledgement that we have received the request for information, but that we need more time to study the case.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the processing standards I'm going to turn to Rose Anne.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very happy to be here, and I thank the honourable members for their interest in this very important issue. I have been following the deliberations of this committee very closely. As a public servant with 23 years of experience at CIC, and as the Assoc

Status of Women committee  We have all previously suggested, and it's certainly true for Citizenship and Immigration, that we have integrated the gender-based analysis throughout our policy and program areas. When we started up, we had dedicated resources, three full-time equivalents, but we have completed

Status of Women committee  As I mentioned earlier, when we were developing our capacity initially, they were very helpful to us in developing our training. We feel we have a fairly mature training program now, so we're less involved with them on a day-to-day basis, but we certainly work with them in terms

Status of Women committee  I believe I have multiple questions. In terms of the different streams of immigration that we have, we certainly did the gender-based analysis on our selection criteria for skilled workers. There is no indication that it is biased against women, and it's gender neutral. For ex

Status of Women committee  Where issues have been raised with us, for example, in the documentation, we mentioned a review of the live-in caregiver program and the trafficking program. We are taking steps in working with the not-for-profit community and women's groups to look at those issues.

Status of Women committee  That's certainly in place with CIC.

Status of Women committee  I would certainly say that I would agree with what you are saying. I think there are two ways certainly to move forward a process like gender-based analysis. You can have the hard controls like the legislation we have at CIC, but I think that equally important are what I would ca

Status of Women committee  Certainly CIC does. In your package, in that CD-ROM there is quite an extensive breakdown of segregated data.

Status of Women committee  The CIC has worked very closely with Status of Women in developing our own capacity and our training. We believe we have our own internal capacity, but we continue to collaborate on training sessions and presentations with Status of Women and our other government departments.

Status of Women committee  Certainly for CIC, yes, because it's also part of our legislated requirement. It doesn't get out the door unless it has had the gender-based analysis.

Status of Women committee  Sure. CIC is proud of the accomplishments that we've made to date, but we realize there is much more work to be done. We are happy to be here to provide you with further information on some of the steps we're planning to take.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and honourable members. Thank you for this opportunity to provide you with an update on the progress we have been making with gender-based analysis in CIC since we last appeared before this committee. May I draw your attention to the fact that we

Status of Women committee  I'm Janet Siddall, the associate assistant deputy minister at Citizenship and Immigration.