Evidence of meeting #52 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was information.
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Conservative
Roxanne James Conservative Scarborough Centre, ON
—because it certainly sounds like an evolution of technology.
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RAdm Donald Loren
But in the same vein, if you really want to circumvent the system, then I'm going to ask for ten prints, I'm going to take a retinal scan as well, and then hopefully, as perfected, I'm going to do cheekbone measurement as well. You're really going to have to go to some effort to change all of those things.
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Conservative
Roxanne James Conservative Scarborough Centre, ON
Thank you.
We had a couple of witnesses mention the infamous Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. They talked about the problem with profiling. Apparently this person fit every profile that should have raised all the bells and whistles, and in fact it did, but he was still allowed to board a plane.
Now that we know who he is...and if he had provided biometrics at some point after he was arrested, charged, and convicted, would he be able to easily walk into your country if you were also using biometrics and he popped up in your database as being the shoe bomber?
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RAdm Donald Loren
Well, that gets back to the previous question: would it be easy? I don't think so. Would it be infallible? Of course...it could be fallible. It's not infallible.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal Kevin Lamoureux
At this point we're going to adjourn the meeting. The bells are ringing and it's 5:30.
Thank you for your presentations.
The meeting is adjourned.