Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  We haven't been able to identify any increased costs that would be incurred by the CBSA as a result of the implementation of Bill S-7.

Public Safety committee  We share information with the U.S. in a number of ways. We share intelligence information. We share information on arrivals who have come to the attention of our targeting program. We share information in a number of ways for a number of reasons under a number of memoranda of understanding.

Public Safety committee  It's on a case-by-case basis.

Public Safety committee  I'd rather not venture an answer on that, if you don't mind. I can undertake to get back to the committee with an accurate response.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  I'd just like to point out that Bill S-7, as currently drafted, does not give the CBSA the authority to stop people.

Public Safety committee  That authority would still remain with the RCMP. In fact, the impact of Bill S-7 on the activities of CBSA will be minimal.

Public Safety committee  It doesn't actually give us any new powers. That's an authority we already have. If we obtain or develop information or intelligence that an individual is planning to leave the country for terrorist purposes—which is unlikely, because there are two other organizations that are primarily mandated to do that—we would pass that information to the RCMP and CSIS.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we are allowed to pass it on to them now. We have a number of authorities for exchanging information.

Public Safety committee  This bill doesn't give us any new authorities that we don't already have, and it will have very little—minimal—impact on our daily operations. The way it would involve our daily operations is if the RCMP or CSIS has an operation under way; then they may ask for our assistance at the port of entry or port of exit.

Public Safety committee  They can. They can ask for it.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that opportunity. The agency is responsible for refusing entry up front to foreign nationals who are known or suspected terrorists. Also, a permanent resident or foreign national may be found inadmissible for reasons of terrorist associations, under section 34 of IRPA, if they've engaged in or there are reasonable grounds to believe that they may engage in terrorism.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we do support those parts of the bill. We support all parts of the bill, though that particular part of the bill is one that CBSA is likely to be involved in marginally.

Public Safety committee  The entry/exit system that we're discussing, that we're working on, that we are developing actively, together with our American counterparts, is an exchange of information on individuals who have entered one country. That information will then be shared. In fact, under a pilot project that's under way as we speak, it is being shared back to the country the individual just departed from.