My question is simply around coordination, because when I asked the question back in the summer about who is training officials abroad on enforcement, I was looking to see where the consular services played a role. At the time, I was told in committee, and it has since been clarified, that in the case of a citizen who was having problems returning to Canada, they were initially identified by the airline officials. When I asked who was actually training the airline officials for enforcement purposes, I was told that it was our Canadian border services agents.
My question was a different one. I asked if we train the police and government officials on enforcement, because my concern was that providing consular services is one thing and enforcement is another. However, what my concern was at the time was that we are actually training officials from other countries and police officials--we have our people training them to do the enforcement--and there were some questions in this particular case around how they ended up in this situation.
I've since had a clarification from the Canada Border Services Agency. They initially said they weren't training police and other officials, but on October 28 I received an e-mail that says while most training is delivered to airlines and their security companies, training is also provided to local police, immigration officials, and diplomatic colleagues from other countries in the immigration and consular sections of our missions abroad. So I guess my question to Mr. Leckey is, for the record, do we train police officials from other countries and diplomatic officials to do enforcement of Canadian passports?