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Q-1068
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 |
With regard to funding provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada to Prairie Harm Reduction in the electoral district of Saskatoon West or any entity representing or associated with Prairie Harm Reduction, since April 1, 2025: (a) what are the details of every grant, contribution, and payment, including, for each, the (i) date recorded, (ii) fiscal year, (iii) amount, (iv) program name, (v) agreement number, (vi) recipient of record, (vii) ultimate intended recipient, if different, (viii) status of the payment, including whether it was issued, withheld, suspended, recovered, or cancelled; (b) what agreements or funding commitments has the Public Health Agency of Canada entered into involving Prairie Harm Reduction Incorporated that were active, approved, amended, or suspended during fiscal year 2025-26 or during the period from April 1, 2026 to the date of this question, including, for each, the (i) agreement number, (ii) program, (iii) approved value, (iv) agreement start date, (v) agreement end date, (vi) amount committed for 2025-26, (vii) amount paid in 2025-26, (viii) amount planned or committed from April 1, 2026 to the date of the question, (ix) amount, if any, withheld, (x) current status; (c) did any Public Health Agency of Canada funding intended for Prairie Harm Reduction Incorporated, or for the same underlying project, agreement, or program activity, carry over, lapse, or remain unpaid into the period from April 1, 2026 to the date of this question, and, if so, what are the details, including the (i) amount, (ii) reason, (iii) whether the amount remained payable; (d) has the Public Health Agency of Canada identified, sought to recover or recovered, any amount related to Prairie Harm Reduction Incorporated in relation to fiscal year 2025-26 or the period from April 1, 2026 to the date of this question, and, if so, what are the details of each such amount, including (i) the amount, (ii) the reason, (iii) the date recovery efforts began, (iv) the amount recovered to date, (v) the amount still outstanding, (vi) how the amount was recovered, (vii) how it was recorded; (e) following Prairie Harm Reduction Incorporated’s reported financial distress and any related bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings and license suspension by Health Canada, what steps, if any, did the Public Health Agency of Canada take, including whether it (i) suspended or withheld payments, (ii) amended or terminated an agreement, (iii) redirected funding to another entity, (iv) sought repayment, (v) filed a claim, (vi) conducted a financial or compliance review, (vii) notified any other department, agency, or minister’s office, (viii) took any other related action, and if so, what; and (f) what total amount was, in relation to Prairie Harm Reduction Incorporated for fiscal year 2025-26, (i) committed, (ii) paid, (iii) paid net of any recoveries, offsets, or adjustments, and what amount, if any, remained outstanding, committed, payable, recoverable, or otherwise active during the period from April 1, 2026 to the date of the question? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, June 1, 2026 |
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Q-1004
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 |
With regard to applications affected by An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025), S.C. 2025, c. 5, and broken down by calendar month, and separately for the periods November 20, 2025, to December 14, 2025, and December 15, 2025 to the date the response is prepared: (a) how many applications for citizenship were received in which the applicant’s claim to citizenship was assessed, or ultimately assessed, under paragraph 3(1)(b) and the substantial-connection framework in subsection 3(3) of the Citizenship Act; (b) of the applications in (a), how many were (i) approved, (ii) refused, (iii) withdrawn, (iv) abandoned, (v) pending at the end of each month; (c) of the applications in (a), what was the applicant’s country of birth, by count; (d) of the applications in (a), what other citizenship or citizenships were declared by applicants in those files, by count; (e) in how many applications in (a) did the department determine that the relevant Canadian parent satisfied the 1,095-day physical presence requirement, and what categories of evidence were accepted for that purpose, broken down by evidence category and count; (f) in how many applications in (a) did the department request additional information or documents to establish the parent’s physical presence in Canada, and what were the 10 most common evidentiary deficiencies identified, by count; (g) of the refusals in (b)(ii), what were the reasons for refusal, broken down by category and count, including, but not limited to, (i) insufficient evidence of the parent’s physical presence in Canada, (ii) parent not a citizen at the relevant time, (iii) applicant not captured by paragraph 3(1)(b), (iv) insufficient proof of parentage, (v) missing or inconsistent identity or civil-status documents, (vi) any other reason; and (h) how many applications received before December 15, 2025, were processed under any interim measure relating to the first-generation limit and later finalized after December 15, 2025, and what were the outcomes of those applications? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, May 25, 2026 |
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Q-1003
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 |
With regard to asylum claimants and rejected asylum claimants in Canada, as of the date the response to this question is prepared, and broken down by province or territory of last known residence, country of alleged persecution, and claimant entry stream, including inland claim, port-of-entry claim, Safe Third Country Agreement exception claim, and irregular entry claim: (a) what is the total number of asylum claims currently in the in-Canada asylum system, broken down by (i) number of claims, (ii) number of unique individuals, (iii) number of family units; (b) of the totals in (a), how many are currently (i) pending an eligibility decision at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, (ii) pending an eligibility decision at the Canada Border Services Agency, (iii) referred to the Refugee Protection Division and pending, (iv) pending before the Refugee Appeal Division, (v) otherwise before the Immigration and Refugee Board but not yet finalized; (c) of the claims pending before the Refugee Protection Division in (b), how many are (i) ready to be heard, (ii) not ready to be heard because of pending security screening, (iii) not ready to be heard because the Basis of Claim form or other claimant documentation is incomplete or outstanding, (iv) not ready to be heard because of another outstanding requirement, broken down by type of requirement; (d) how many asylum claimants currently in the system have had a final negative decision from (i) the Refugee Protection Division only, with an appeal or further recourse still available or pending, (ii) the Refugee Appeal Division, (iii) the Federal Court, where applicable; (e) how many rejected asylum claimants are currently physically present in Canada, broken down by (i) number of claims, (ii) country of alleged persecution; (f) of the rejected asylum claimants in (e), how many are currently subject to (i) an enforceable removal order, (ii) a stayed removal order, (iii) a removal order that is not yet enforceable, and what is the breakdown by type of removal order; (g) of the rejected asylum claimants in (e), how many are in each internal Canada Border Services Agency removal inventory or sub-inventory, including, but not limited to, (i) monitoring inventory, (ii) stay inventory, (iii) wanted inventory, (iv) working inventory, and what is the number in any other inventory or sub-inventory used internally; and (h) of the rejected asylum claimants in (e), how many are currently not removable, broken down by reason, including (i) pending pre-removal risk assessment, (ii) pending Federal Court judicial review or court-ordered stay, (iii) inability to obtain travel documents, (iv) administrative deferral of removal, (v) medical reasons, (vi) incarceration or pending criminal proceedings, (vii) inability to locate the individual, (viii) other legal or administrative impediment? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, May 25, 2026 |
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Q-1002
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 |
With regard to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada’s “File Review” or other paper-based decision-making processes used to determine refugee protection claims, since January 1, 2017, broken down by calendar year and, where applicable, by claimant country, claim type, and decision stream: (a) what countries, claim types, or country-and-claim-type combinations were, at any time, identified as eligible, presumptively eligible, or generally suitable for File Review, and, for each, on what dates were they added, amended, suspended, removed, or otherwise reclassified; (b) what quantitative and qualitative criteria were used to determine whether a claim was suitable for File Review, including any thresholds relating to historical acceptance rates, documentary identity requirements, front-end security screening completion, ministerial intervention, complexity, credibility, or country condition evidence; (c) how many claims were (i) screened for possible File Review, (ii) triaged into File Review, (iii) accepted without an oral hearing, (iv) returned from File Review to a short hearing, (v) returned from File Review to a full hearing, (vi) rejected, (vii) withdrawn, (viii) abandoned, (ix) still pending after triage; (d) for the claims referred to in (c), what were the average and median processing times from referral to triage, triage to decision, and referral to final disposition, and how did these compare to claims determined through a full oral hearing; (e) in how many cases (i) was the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety notified of the intention to proceed by File Review, (ii) was the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety given an opportunity to intervene, (iii) did the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety intervene, (iv) did the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety request that the matter proceed to a hearing, (v) did the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety decline to intervene, and what were the outcomes of those cases; (f) in how many cases triaged to File Review was front-end security screening incomplete at the time of initial triage, and what steps, if any, were taken before a final decision was rendered in each such case; and (g) in how many cases triaged to or accepted through File Review were concerns later identified relating to (i) identity, (ii) credibility, (iii) fraud or misrepresentation, (iv) criminality, (v) security inadmissibility, (vi) organized criminality, (vii) war crimes or crimes against humanity, (viii) cessation proceedings, (ix) vacation proceedings, (x) other integrity concerns, and what was the disposition in each category? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, May 25, 2026 |
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Q-445
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 |
With regard to the statement made at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, on October 2, 2025, by Uyen Hoang, Director General, Citizenship Branch, at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, that “we do have a program called entry and exit, [...] there are mechanisms in place in order to know when an individual is leaving a country” and the fact that both the Department of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship and the Canada Border Services Agency have stated multiple times in answer to Order Paper Questions (such as Q-2214 and Q-2532 from the 44th Parliament) that the government does not track when people exit the country:
(a) does such a program exist;
(b) if yes in (a), what is the government’s explanation as to why the department and the agency provided false information to Parliament;
(c) if yes in (a), when did the Clerk of the Privy Council become aware that false information was provided to Parliament;
(d) if yes in (a), what disciplinary action will be taken by the Privy Council Office against the officials responsible for preparing this false information to Parliament;
(e) if yes in (a), has the Privy Council Office done a complete review of all Order Paper Questions from the 44th Parliament to ensure that they are aware of all instances where this false information was provided to Parliament;
(f) will the government be correcting the record by providing revised responses to Order Paper questions Q-2214 and Q-2532 from the 44th Parliament;
and (g) is the government planning on issuing any type of apology to Canadians for the tabling of this false information, and, if so, how and when will the apology be delivered? |
Answered |
Monday, November 24, 2025 |
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Q-444
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 |
With regard to the statement made at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, on October 2, 2025, by Uyen Hoang, Director General, Citizenship Branch, at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, that “we do have a program called entry and exit, [...] there are mechanisms in place in order to know when an individual is leaving a country”:
(a) what department, agency, police force or combination thereof, is responsible for this program;
(b) when did this program come into effect;
(c) from which countries does this program track exit and entry data;
(d) from the start of the program, or the 2015-16 fiscal year, whichever is oldest, what is the annual level of funding for the program;
(e) from the start of the program, or the 2015-16 fiscal year, whichever is oldest, how many full-time equivalents are assigned to work under the program umbrella;
(f) how does the program collect exit numbers;
(g) what companies are contracted or subcontracted to execute this program, and what is the value of the each contract awarded to contractors or subcontractors; (h) from the start of the program, or the 2015-16 fiscal year, whichever is oldest, and broken down by each border crossing and mode, how many people exited the country, and of those people, how many were (i) Canadians, (ii) non-Canadians; (i) what are the details of the non-Canadians who exited the country in (h)(ii), including (i) on which permits were they previously allowed entry into the country, (ii) which permits were no longer valid at the time of their exit; and (j) what percentage of temporary residents are identified as having overstayed their lawful period of entry in Canada? |
Answered |
Monday, November 24, 2025 |
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Q-434
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 |
With regard to the labour market projections used for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada's Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, commonly referred to as the Immigration Levels Plan, that the government is scheduled to table in the House of Commons before the end of 2025:
(a) what skill shortages were targeted, broken down by (i) vacancy rates, (ii) National Occupational Classification code, (iii) what vacancy and wage data sources were used;
(b) what assumptions were used for foreign credential recognition timelines and success rates by occupation;
(c) what productivity and wage effects were modeled, broken down by sector;
(d) what historical and anticipated Labour Market Impact Assessment was undertaken by Employment and Social Development Canada; and
(e) what are the sectoral results and supporting data which led to the results for 2025-30?
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Answered |
Monday, November 24, 2025 |
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Q-433
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 |
With regard to the housing implications for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada's Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, commonly referred to as the Immigration Levels Plan, that the government is scheduled to table in the House of Commons before the end of 2025:
(a) what joint workbooks or models were shared with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or with provinces and territories;
(b) what assumptions were used for household formation by admission class and for students or other temporary residents;
(c) what were the modeled effects on (i) housing starts and completions, (ii) prices and rents, (iii) rental vacancy rates by census metropolitan area; and
(d) what briefing notes or other documents were produced about aligning admissions numbers with housing supply for the report, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) sender, (iii) recipients, (iv) title, (v) type of document, (vi) file number?
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Answered |
Monday, November 24, 2025 |
