Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's an interesting question, which I'm not able to answer. It's a policy question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I don't have that level of detail available. I'm not sure it would be available in the way that our systems capture the agency applications.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  An applicant has the pre-removal risk assessment. If it is determined that the applicant would not be at risk from being returned to their home country and they have exhausted all the legal avenues and due processes available to them, then Canada would remove them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, you cannot remove Canadian citizens; it's the parents' choice. The children can accompany their parents or the children have a right to remain in Canada because they're Canadian citizens.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think, again, that's a policy question. When the minister appeared before this committee last month, I believe he said deliberations on the implementation of the RAD should be taken within the context of the overall review of the immigration asylum system. We're not able to r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That would make sense to me. I wasn't around at the time; I'd have to go back and actually take a look--but yes, of course we prepare for the implementation of new legislation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not aware of anything like a report that we could share, but we do have the comprehensive report. Our missions abroad do report on their selection interviews and the types of cases they are seeing. There could be some punctual, if you will, reporting that comes in from time t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I'd go back to the earlier answer. We do consult with the provinces. We have ongoing consultations at the officials level and at the ministerial level, and the overall program is discussed. The concern the provinces have raised is the social services cost to them of the r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, this is not really a refugee issue, but I believe this was discussed with the minister when he was before you. A very general high-level response is that most of the increase in the budgets of the department has been for settlement programs to improve the services to tho

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's really another policy question that we're not able to answer. Sorry, but it's a question you could certainly put to the minister.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We certainly don't have that level of analysis here. In looking at the costs, it's very difficult to parse out the costs when they're shared across a system, but we'll certainly go back and take a look at the work that has been done. As you mentioned, you've submitted a request

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I'll do an overview, and if there's more detail perhaps Micheline can jump in. Yes, because we've been focusing on refugees who are in most need of protection, we certainly have found that their needs are higher than in the past, and that's both on health and integration

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think one of the most successful new initiatives we've undertaken in recent years is working with UNHCR on group processing. So they identify vulnerable groups that have fairly similar characteristics and instead of having to do an in-depth, case-by-case review, we're able to l

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's my reference to how we can assist with our resettlement from abroad program to help address, as part of the international community, protracted refugee situations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The information comes from our missions abroad, which are processing these applications. They report on their acceptance and refusal rates, the characteristics of the cases they're able to accept, and the cases that do not qualify. It also comes from our discussions with the spon