Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. Well, if they are from a visa-free country, the discrepancy between Canada and the United States in terms of visa-free access is quite small. We can provide the committee, through the clerk, with our respective lists, but essentially, each country will have screened indivi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A TRP would still be available for individuals who are found to be inadmissible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we're looking at in the budget implementation act are the legislative parameters to be able to establish eTA, to enable automated decision-making, and to seek exemption from the User Fees Act. In terms of program design, as Ms. Welbourne said, extensive regulatory work wil

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's a standard within the Privacy Act, but again we would work with her office to determine what an appropriate period of time would be. I think 15 is the maximum allowed under the Privacy Act.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. Perhaps I could ask Ms. Bourry to clarify.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The eTA is designed to apply to the air mode. It won't apply initially to the marine or the land border. As I said earlier, working with the United States under the perimeter strategy to ensure an alignment of the eTA with their ESTA will help to ensure that common threats and ri

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Flexibility and speed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  CIC is working with CBSA and the RCMP to move out on the biometrics project for certain temporary residents. I appeared with colleagues from CBSA and the RCMP a few months ago to discuss that. Essentially what we are looking at, for an initial rollout mid-2013, fall 2013, relat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Cost avoidance—yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unless I'm mistaken, you're talking about an instance where we would receive information after an eTA has been issued. The information will be entered into the system very quickly. When the person wants to travel to Canada, that information will be in the system at the airport a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We plan to use eTA as a tool in the case of temporary residents, where we don't have a backlog. There are some processing delays, but as you mentioned, we expect that, for the vast majority of applicants, the eTA system will make it possible to make a decision in a few minutes. A

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As Ms. Welbourne mentioned, we are currently working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to determine how long we are going to keep the information, how we will use it and, should we share the information with the United States, how we will go about doing so.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I imagine that we will keep the systems…

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely. We will be willing to share with the committee the policy development stages that will be carried out with the commissioner's office.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will be guided by the User Fees Act and the Financial Administration Act. We cannot generate revenues that are greater than the cost related to the delivery of the services. It is a very specific framework. Therefore, when we work with the Treasury Board to set fees or determi