Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. What we're talking about are people intercepted in the foreign country before they were able to board a flight to Canada. In the vast majority of cases, I'd say in over 99% of cases, the authority would have been our own MIO. I may even have gone too far, because the cases

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that still happens every day. As I said, our success rate is 70%, but that means that 30% either are allowed to board a flight to Canada without proper documentation, despite our very best efforts, or they may even have been properly documented when they boarded the plane

Foreign Affairs committee  When they arrive, the very likely occurrence is that they'll claim refugee status and they'll be entered into the refugee system.

Foreign Affairs committee  This will come down to a discussion with consular affairs locally. Let me talk about two different cases. In one case, let's say someone wishing to travel to Canada has been intercepted by an airline employee or by a local official because the case doesn't look right to them. T

Foreign Affairs committee  Since 1989-90 there have been 97,000.

Foreign Affairs committee  They're stationed abroad to enforce and assist in the administration of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The writ of the IRPA doesn't run in foreign countries, so it doesn't automatically give them any authorization. They rely upon cooperation with the foreign governme

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we train officials of other governments. We train them in what a genuine Canadian passport looks like, how to detect a genuine Canadian passport as opposed to a fraudulent one, the security features, the requirements for visas to come to Canada, which vary from country to co

Foreign Affairs committee  It could be. It could be the local airline officials. We also train airlines. In those cases, if there's a doubt about the identity of a Canadian, they will call on the migration integrity officer.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Canadian passport is a highly desirable travel document, and for that reason it is intensively targeted by networks that want to use it for fraudulent purposes. However, it does have good security features. It's one of the harder passports to forge.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, and good morning. I'm Geoff Leckey, and I'm the director general of the intelligence directorate of the Canada Border Services Agency. Good morning. I'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak to the role that the Canada Border Services Agency plays

Public Safety committee  I'm not the final authority on this, but as I understand it the decision is taken by Transport Canada, acting on advice from CSIS and the RCMP.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to use some of my notes. In terms of the recommendation that the agency should have written policies stating that investigations must not be based on racial, religious, or ethnic profiling, we've implemented mandatory training on diversity

Public Safety committee  In terms of general usage, the no-fly list refers to the American list, which is quite large. The Canadian list known as Passenger Protect is a completely different list. Incidentally, CBSA has no input into the composition of that list.

Public Safety committee  We'll be happy to commit to doing that. In response to your initial question, the CBSA finds itself in a situation similar to CSIS's. Of the 23 recommendations, there are six that refer, directly or indirectly, to the CBSA. I could go into that in some detail now, but perhaps y

Public Safety committee  When you say CSIS...?