Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Hill is prepared to respond to questions related to detention.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At this point, we don't have a formal arrangement with the CRA in line with the question you’ve asked. I think that would certainly require us to look at privacy considerations, if that were a direction to be pursued.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, in the past, there have been queries on the potential for doing that. To my knowledge—and we would have to verify this—my sense is that some initial conversations have taken place with the CRA, to understand what the potential benefits might be, but we've not pursued anythi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not personally aware of any such arrangements, so I really can't comment on whether or not it's something that would be particularly effective.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The short answer is yes, we do share information between agencies. In fact, since the creation of the Border Services Agency in 2003, this has been essential to ensuring that Canada's security remains protected at all times and that we are making the appropriate decisions about t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, members of the committee. My name is Les Linklater. I'm the assistant deputy minister of strategic and program policy at Citizenship and Immigration. I'm joined by my colleague, Dawn Edlund, who is the associate assistant deputy minister fo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As Ms. Welbourne said, the initial engagement has really been about the concept of the eTA, helping the commissioner and her staff understand what we have in mind, in terms of comparable systems in the U.S. and Australia. Beyond that, it's to ensure that her office is engaged eve

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. Part of this bill relates to the enabling statutory authorities to set up the regime. To actually have the regime come into force will require the regulations, based on the PIA, based on the collaboration with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are working with Treasury Board around the costs of this initiative. Those have not been nailed down and finally determined. As I said, once we've been able to work with Treasury Board around the impacts and the scope of this—coming back to your point about resources availabl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. As we work with Treasury Board around the scope of the program, do we have the right number of additional officers lined up in the field to deal with potential refusals, that sort of thing? All of that has a bearing on how much we can charge for the fee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is a fair assessment, but as I said, having not yet had the final conversation and decision from the Treasury Board around the scope of the program....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But I would say that the fee will be very competitive vis-à-vis the U.S. and Australia.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a number of inadmissibility provisions in the act. There are provisions for misrepresentation, if someone has lied on the application or through the process. If they have a criminal record—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It will apply to visa-exempt countries except the United States.