Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are three regimes: visa regime, eTA regime, United States.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Citizens of the U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I said, we do rely on CSIS, CBSA, and the RCMP to help us with security screening, and they have databases that feed into an overall assessment and recommendation back to CIC. Ms. Welbourne can provide more detail on that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are constrained in what we can share and with whom by the Privacy Act.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think if there is going to be any review of the regime, the cabinet process would need to be engaged, definitely. If there are follow-on implications that Parliament is justified in reviewing, then absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The minister has put in place a public policy that allows Border Services officers who encounter.... Let's use your example of an American with a DUI who is at the port of entry. If such a situation arises and the individual is determined to be inadmissible by virtue of that offe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I think it has been helpful for certain sectors in the tourism industry to understand that if this does happen, then the whole party may not necessarily be affected by this. The individual in question can be allowed forward subject to the parameters that I described, for th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Essentially, that's correct. I think that in the United States it's valid for two years. In Australia, it's valid for one year. We think that a longer period of time that corresponds with where we want to go and where we have been going on the temporary resident visa side—by iss

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, the goal is to strike a balance that allows us to assess the risks before these people arrive in Canada. We need to make sure our methods line up with the strategic directions of the United States in the context of the perimeter security strategy. This involves finding a way

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right, pushing the risks outside the perimeter, making sure that we can deal with them before they are present on Canadian territory, absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I said initially, the User Fees Act is one aspect of the fees regime. The Financial Administration Act is also very clear about departments' abilities to levy fees that cannot exceed the cost of delivering the service. Essentially, as we look at biometrics, as we look at eTA

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that the fees will be set in regulation. Of course, that process is subject to parliamentary scrutiny as well as public scrutiny and input.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right, and in fact in terms of security screening around immigration applications, whether for temporary or permanent residents, CIC applies indicators, but we work with and rely very much on our Public Safety and security partners to assist with the screening of individua