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CIMM – 2022-23 Main Estimates – May 12, 2022

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Incremental funding included in the 2022-23 Main Estimates is comprised of the following items:

  1. Funding from cumulative immigration levels plans – $208.8M
    • Incremental funding of $208.8M is being sought in these Main Estimates for the implementation of the 2021-2023 multi-year Immigration Levels Plan. IRCC’s 2022-23 Main Estimates include cumulative funding of $773.3M since the first multi-year Immigration Levels Plan for 2017-2019. Funding will help increase immigration levels to 411,000 admissions in 2022.
    • Approved funding for 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan included an increase of 50,000 admissions in 2021 for a new total of 401,000; 50,000 admissions in 2022 for a new total of 411,000; and a 60,000 increase in admissions for 2023 for a new total of 421,000.
    • The 2022-2024 Levels Plan was tabled in Parliament in February 2022 and funding will be sought via the Estimates process.
  2. Funding for the Interim Housing Assistance Program (IHAP) – $173.0M
    • The Department has requested to reprofile an unused amount of $173.0M from 2020-21 into 2022-23 to provide financial support to provinces and, if necessary to municipalities, to address extraordinary interim housing pressures resulting from increases in volumes of asylum claimants following the lifting of border restrictions with the United States and ease of travel restrictions, and continued high interim housing costs due to COVID-19.
    • The end of the prohibition on asylum claimants entering between designated ports of entry at the Canada-U.S. border on November 21, 2021, has led to a rapid and significant resumption of irregular arrivals, primarily at Roxham Road in Quebec. This is already starting to put pressure on Quebec’s shelter capacity, and may potentially overwhelm the shelter system in major municipalities, including those in the Greater Toronto Region, as this trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
  3. Funding for the resettlement commitment for the evacuation and immigration of Afghan nationals to Canada – $106.2M
    • Incremental funding for the resettlement of 8,000 Afghan national government-assisted refugees in addition to what has already been approved in the 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan as well as costs associated with priority processing of 7,000 Afghan nationals as privately sponsored refugees; costs associated with the Special Immigration Measures implemented to facilitate immigration to Canada for Afghan nationals who were locally engaged staff at the Embassy of Canada or had an enduring and/or significant relationship with the Government of Canada; and costs associated with Operation Canadian Safe Haven.
  4. Funding to provide health care to refugees and asylum seekers through the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) – $83.5M
    • Incremental funding of $83.5M is being sought for the IFHP.
    • Funding is intended to provide limited temporary coverage of healthcare benefits to resettled refugees, asylum seekers, and certain groups (such as victims of human trafficking and persons detained under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act) until they become eligible for provincial/ territorial healthcare coverage, or, in the case of unsuccessful asylum seekers, leave Canada.
  5. Funding for the Canada-Quebec Accord on immigration – $46.8M
    • Incremental funding of $46.8M is being sought via the Main Estimates for the annual grant to Quebec to support settlement and integration services in the province of Quebec under the Canada-Quebec Accord.
    • For this year, extraordinary COVID-19 expenditures have been removed from the two escalator factors used to calculate the grant adjustment. The annual growth for the 2021-22 payment is 7.2% – representing 6.5% from federal spending and 0.7% from non-francophone immigrants.
    • Funding for this Accord totals $697.0M in the 2022-23 Main Estimates compared to $650.3M in last year’s Main Estimates.
  6. Funding to proceed with building Canada’s modern, digital and data-driven migration system – $33.1M
    • Funding is being sought for the definition stage of the Digital Platform Modernization Phase 3 Program which will determine IRCC’s future business model and transformation objectives, develop the business and technical capability roadmaps to align to benefits, and initiate activities that will result in selecting a System Integrator.
  7. Funding to uphold and improve client services – $22.1M
    • Funding is being sought to uphold personalized support for clients, especially those facing service barriers, by maintaining IRCC’s capacity at the Client Support Centre (or call centre) achieved post Budget 2019 and its established public-facing standards.
    • Budget 2021 investments will allow IRCC to retain and augment the number of Client Support Centre agents who provide personalized support as well as to maintain service levels despite the expected increase in the volume of enquiries.
  8. Funding related to the enhancement of Canada’s asylum system – $21.6M
    • The net increase of $21.6M in 2022-23 compared to last fiscal year is comprised of:
      • An increase of $46.5M in the funding profile for enabling the asylum system, $12.8M previously reprofiled into 2022-23 for the Migration Cooperation and Engagement Envelope (MCEE); and $3.0M previously reprofiled into 2022-23 for the Integrated Claim Analysis Centre (ICAC).
      • These increases were offset by a reduction of $38.5M in the funding profile for “Enhancing the Integrity of Canada’s Borders and Asylum System”, $1.3M for the Security Screening Automation led by CBSA and $0.9M to enhance the asylum information technologies systems interoperability.
  9. Funding for the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy – $15.7M
    • This funding was granted in Budget 2021 to serve newcomer youth in 2022-23 by providing policy program oversight, liaising with implicated stakeholders and managing contribution agreements with service delivery organizations.
  10. Funding to extend the Racialized Newcomer Women Pilot – $10.6M
    • IRCC is seeking $14.9M over two years to extend the Racialized Newcomer Women Pilot. This will enable third-party organizations to: a) continue delivering targeted services that support the labour market attachment and career advancement of racialized newcomer women in Canada; and b) finalize testing and evaluating new models of employment-related settlement services for racialized newcomer women.
    • This will support improved employment-related services for racialized newcomer women under the Settlement Program.
  11. Transfer from GAC to adjust funding previously provided for departmental staff located at missions abroad – $6.3M
    • As part of regular operations, IRCC resources are transferred to, and received from other government departments for various initiatives and purposes. This transfer of $6.3M from GAC is for adjustments related to supporting IRCC’s staff located at missions abroad.
  12. Funding to respond to the Venezuelan migrant and refugee crisis – $2.4M
    • This funding will support the Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean Region to help the targeted governments of Panama and Colombia better respond to the needs of Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees while helping to strengthen their border and migration management policies.
    • Total funding of $3.8M (excluding Shared Services Canada and Accommodation costs) over two years includes $3.5M in vote 10 through the International Assistance Envelope (IAE) to be managed under the Terms and Conditions of IRCC's International Migration Capacity Building Program (IMCBP).
  13. Funding to increase protection of temporary foreign workers – $1.9M
    • As announced in Budget 2021, this funding will support the integrity of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) through two key measures: enhancements to Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers (OWP-V) Program Service Delivery, as well as ESDC-led Employer Compliance Inspections and Program Integrity Work (Inspections).
    • Funding provided under OWP-V will be used to manage the volumes and complexity of OWP-V applications. Funding for Inspections for 2021-22 will be used to support TFWP inspections conducted by ESDC to help respond to requests for work permits and LMIA-name information available in GCMS.
  14. Passport Program (-$57.4M)
    • The Passport Program operates on a cost recovery basis and finances activities through the fees charged for its services. Program funds are placed in a Revolving Fund which has a continuing non-lapsing authority from Parliament.
    • The adjustment reflect a decrease is the draw-down from the Revolving Fund as revenues are anticipated to increase due to forecasted volume of 1.1M passport applications in 2022-23.
  15. Employee Benefits Plans Adjustment (-$7.8M)
    • Annual adjustment to the Employee Benefits Plans (EBP) is related to IRCC’s salary included in the Main Estimates.
    • EBP consist of employer costs for the Public Service Superannuation Plan, the Canada and Quebec Pension Plan, Death Benefits, and Employment Insurance.
  16. Budget reduction for travel costs (-$4.5M)
    • Budget 2021 proposed to reduce the operating budgets of the departments and agencies with the highest historical travel costs.
  17. Net transfer to Shared Services Canada for the Enterprise funding model for Government IT services (-$3.9M)
    • Budget 2021 approved a permanent reallocation of resources to Shared Services Canada (SSC) from its 43 partner organizations, effective April 1, 2022 to support the Enterprise Service Model for Government IT operations.
    • IRCC’s contribution to SSC amounts to $4.3M for this initiative of which $0.4M is deducted in 2022-23 as it relates to IRCC’S Passport Program funded from a Revolving Fund.
  18. Other minor funding adjustments (-$4.1M)
    • These adjustments mainly include reductions of $6.0M related to the reprofiling of Biometric expansion and $4.3M for workforce and career pathways for visible minority newcomer women.
    • Total minor decreases in funding were mainly offset by funding received in the amounts of $3M for collective agreements and $2.7M in funding to account for the implementation of comprehensive EBP rates for legal services.

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