CIMM – Summary of the Immigration and Refugee Board’s 2022-2023 Supplementary Estimates B – November 29, 2022
Key Messages
The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) 2022-2023 Supplementary Estimates B include three eligible items totaling $2M:
The reprofiled funding for the Asylum Interoperability Project in the amount of $1.3M.
This funding will support the remaining implementation of adding data and document exchange capabilities between the two case management systems used by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Canada Border Services Agency and IRB, in support of the funds from Budget 2019 for “Reforming Canada’s Asylum system”.
The remaining work will complete the foundational technological infrastructure to address interoperability gaps and strengthen the sharing of information among the three departments.
The incremental funding for the 2022-2024 Immigration Levels Plan, including Afghan Refugees which was approved at Treasury Board on September 29, 2022, in the amount of $0.5M for IRB.
New funding for Special Immigration Measures for Ukrainian Nationals in the amount of $0.1M for IRB; and,
As part of the $2M, related new statutory funding for Supplementary Estimates B eligible items referenced above in the amount of $0.1M.
The IRB’s total funding as reported in the 2022-2023 Supplementary Estimates B equals $294M. The source of this funding is as follows:
$282M from the 2022-2023 Main Estimates, which includes $137M in Budget 2020 temporary funding;
$10M from the 2021-22 operating budget carry forward, in addition; and,
$2M from 2022-2023 Supplementary Estimates B described above.
The Treasury Board Secretariat’s 2022-2023 Supplementary Estimates B will also include funding from the Treasury Board central vote 15, allocated to IRB via allotment adjustments:
$5M for the Directive on Terms and Conditions of Employment for Executives and senior leaders in the core public administration, ratified in April 2022.
Additional Information
IRB’s 2022-2023 Main Estimates
IRB’s 2022-2023 Main Estimates of $282M is unchanged from the $282M reported in the 2021-2022 Main Estimates. The small variance is due to transfer for Government IT Operations.
In Budget 2022 the Government announced IRB’s conversion of temporary funding into a permanent allocation of $150M ongoing, to enhance Canada’s asylum system and boost capacity in order to finalize 50,000 asylum claims and 13,500 appeals each year. In addition, this Budget provided a temporary top-up of funding to allow for a higher number of claim finalizations while the system responds to pent-up demand.
