Saskatoon, November 25, 2011 — Kelly Block, MP for Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, on behalf of Jason Kenney, Minister
of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, today announced allocations for settlement funding for Saskatchewan for the 2012-2013 fiscal
year.
“The Government of Canada wants newcomers to integrate into Canada. That is why we have tripled settlement funding since 2005-06,” said
MP Block. “We
are committed to ensuring the distribution of settlement funding is fair and that immigrants receive the same level of service, regardless of where they choose
to settle.”
The allocation for settlement services in Saskatchewan will be $18M for the 2012-13 fiscal year, an increase of $3.7M from this
current fiscal year.
Settlement funding is also being more fairly distributed, to serve the needs of newcomers, as a result of a national settlement funding formula
that is based on a province or territory’s share of immigrant intake. This formula now applies in all provinces and territories except Quebec.
The
funding formula was also updated recently to reflect the use of settlement services by refugees and will increase the amount allocated to provinces
and territories, based on their intake of refugees.
“We believe it is only fair that settlement allocations across Canada should be based
on the share of newcomers that provinces and territories have,” noted
said MP Block.
The priority for the 2012-13 allocations is to focus on delivering services directly to immigrants and away from supporting expenses
such as administration, travel or capital costs for organizations. The total 2012-13 amount for all provinces and territories outside Quebec is
$576.8M, compared to $184.7M in 2005-06.
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