Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good morning everyone. I'm very pleased to be appearing before you today. To try to do our best to be as effective as we possibly can in answering your questions, I have with me Assistant Commissioner Bob Paulson, who's in charge of national security

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Ménard. That's very unfortunate; I agree with you. It is indeed a shame that our world has changed to the extent that it has. It has caused us to take communities such as Stanstead, which you mentioned, in a different light. They see themselves

Public Safety committee  We've consulted with the communities to make sure that as changes are made that disrupt what they saw as their permanent way of living, the reason is understood, the rationale is understood, and to find ways to ensure security while disrupting their lives as little as possible.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Comartin. Yes, the cooperation with the United States, especially with the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms agency, is going very well. In fact, they've recently deployed three agents who work out of the embassy here in order for us to have better contact with them

Public Safety committee  I believe we're both on it.

Public Safety committee  It is no problem. As well, the Ontario Provincial Police is on it, because they have a provincial weapons enforcement unit. They highlighted, at the last Cross-border Crime Forum, actually, an outstanding investigation they had completed into a criminal organization that was imp

Public Safety committee  Maybe I can explain it this way. There needs to be a very seamless integration between our borders and our inland teams and our international partners, our liaison officers abroad. As we get information and we start to verify it and dig into it a little deeper, we very often find

Public Safety committee  May I just add that sometimes this non-publication is at our request because of ongoing investigations, for example.

Public Safety committee  Would you like me to comment as well on the statements about the missing pieces of the puzzle that Mike spoke about?

Public Safety committee  We have had discussions with our U.S. counterparts. Initially they were running these drones on their southern border. Then when they began to implement them on the northern border—our southern border—they were implementing them on their side. We've had discussions over how to im

Public Safety committee  I'll turn it over to Mike for the details on that.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. Thank you. I spoke about the importance of inland teams and the seamless integration that exists between inland and the border. That is crucial to getting ahead of the problem, internationally and domestically. We have a number of integrated teams working inland--com

Public Safety committee  If I may, I'll just add a quick response to this. I have a letter here, Mr. Chairman, addressed to you that I signed this morning, indicating that Assistant Commissioner Cabana was not accurate in his response to you with respect to contribution to the report. He consulted with

Public Safety committee  The border patrol is definitely a possibility. But it's very important that when we're talking about a border patrol, we're not simply talking about driving back and forth on the highway--as I always say, burning gas with no goal in mind. We operate very much on an intelligence-

Public Safety committee  We have not done a study to determine how much that would cost, but we are discussing the possibility of doing a trial at a specific location to verify that.