COW – Minister's Appearance before the Committee of the Whole (CoW) on Main Estimates – May 28, 2026

In Brief

1. Opening Remarks
2. Parliamentary Context
3. Summary data tables
4. Understanding student and temporary worker numbers in Canada
5. Asylum statistics, trends and data
6. IRCC applications at a glance: Inventories and backlogs
7. Data Tables for Responses to Recent Crises
8. Quebec Key Facts
9. Overview of Main Estimates
   1. Comprehensive Expenditure Review
   2. Professional Services
   3. Multi-year Funding Reductions

Sustainable Immigration

1. Immigration Levels Plan
   1. Commitments for Levels
   2. Permanent Resident Overview
   3. Temporary Resident Overview
   4. Immigration Impacts on Social Infrastructure
   5. Impacts of Levels on Funding to Settlement Services
   6. Wait times for Humanitarian and Compassionate
   7. Wait times for Parents and Grandparents, Family Reunification
   8. Undocumented Migrants
2. Temporary Foreign Workers
   1. Volumes of Temporary Foreign Workers
   2. Youth Unemployment
   3. Worker Compliance and Protection
   4. Sectoral and Regional Gaps Addressed by Temporary Foreign Workers
   5. 33K + Ongoing, One-time Initiative—Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident transition
3. International Students
   1. Progress on Office of the Auditor General of Canada Report
   2. Student Asylum Claimants
   3. Student Fraud
   4. Security Screening of Students
   5. Measures Taken to Date
   6. Student Cap Impacts on Institutions
   7. Designated Learning Institution Compliance
4. Francophone Immigration
   1. Targets and Intake Numbers
   2. Value of Francophone Immigration
   3. Impacts of Francophone Immigration on Quebec's Own Immigration
5. Talent Attraction
   1. Government of Canada Approach to Talent Attraction
   2. Express Entry
   3. Graduate/PhD Students
   4. Advertising and Marketing Campaign

Asylum

6. Asylum
   1. Students Asylum Claimants
   2. Historic Admittance
   3. Safe Third Country Agreement
   4. Support for Asylum Claimants
   5. Interim Federal Health Program Costs and Measures Taken
   6. Interim Housing Assistance Program Funding for Municipalities
   7. Redistribution/Relocation of Asylum Claimants
   8. Claim Processing Times (IRB)
   9. Pre-Removal Risk Assessment Process
   10. Support Provided to Quebec for Asylum Claimants
   11. Protected Persons in Canada

Security and Fraud

7. Security Screening
   1. Security Screening Process
   2. Serious Criminality and how it is Addressed
   3. Sentencing and Immigration Status
   4. Security Screening of Asylum Seekers
   5. Screening of First Applications vs Extension Requests
   6. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, FIFA
   7. Prolonged Security Screening Delays
   8. Visa Application Centres
8. Management of Expired and Cancelled Visas
   1. Temporary Resident Volumes with Visas About to Expire
   2. Consequences of Expired Visas
   3. Entry-exit Controls and Pilot Initiative

Processing and Modernization

9. Modernizing Canada's Immigration System
   1. Use of Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Automation Tools
   2. Digital Platform Modernization—Measures Taken to Support Innovation and Modernization
10. Processing Times and Service Delivery
    1. Service standards and Measures Taken to Improve Service
    2. Funding Cuts and Reduction of Staff and Impacts
    3. Application Status Tracker

International Responses and Pathways

11. Responses for Specific Country, Regions or Populations
    1. Crisis Response Framework
    2. Sudan
    3. Gaza
    4. Ukraine
    5. Iran
    6. Hong Kong
    7. Uyghurs
    8. Yazidis (Syria/Turkey)
    9. Haiti
    10. Afghans in Pakistan
    11. Response to Ebola Outbreak
12. Refugee Resettlement
    1. Support for Refugees
    2. Private Sponsorship of Refugees Intake Pause
13. Global Compacts
    1. Global Compacts
    2. International Migration Review Forum