Making sense of Canada’s refugee and immigration numbers: Robson

Jennifer Robson highlights the obscurity of the formal government reports in understanding the refugee program:

I decided I would try to follow the numbers to better understand the current state of Canada’s federal immigration and refugee programs.

I learned at least four things that I thought are worth sharing:

1) As an outsider, it is very difficult to get detailed information, or to even get information that aligns from one source to the next.

2) There is a $10-million cut planned to Citizenship and Immigration (CIC)’s envelope for refugees.

3) Federal refugee programs are complex and complicated.

4) There are doubtless other cuts to other programs in other departments that any new government may have to live with, especially if it plans on a balanced budget for 2016.

Her report comes with a number of useful charts.

Source: Making sense of Canada’s refugee and immigration numbers