Justice committee  You are absolutely right, they are ideal participants. We do cooperate with native police. In Cornwall alone, we are involved in a number of—I think it's three or four—joint forces operations that involve the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service. The integrated criminal intelligence

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. We feel that it is a plague that is increasing. I can give you numbers to that effect. With your permission, I will continue my answer in English.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to provide testimony in your consideration of Bill C-10, the tackling contraband tobacco act. I'd like to begin by noting that the specific amendments to the Criminal Code proposed in Bill C-10 will have on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Linklater suggested that his CBSA colleagues might have something to add, but I think his answer was pretty good.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Les. Yes, high-risk countries tend to have a visa requirement. When a visa application is received, the first thing to happen is that the CIC immigration officer overseas makes an assessment of whether the applicant appears to meet certain indicators that might suggest s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, is the short answer. There was a chapter of a report from the Office of the Auditor General last year called “Issuing Visas”. It noted that there were potential shortcomings in our access to all the information we might have access to, so we've taken steps to address that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, not legislative or regulatory. The Office of the Auditor General was not convinced that the CBSA, in carrying out its role in screening visa applicants, had access to all possible relevant government information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Les. I'll expand on your comments. In the course of processing visa applications, we certainly do exchange information with our two closest security partners, the RCMP and CSIS. CBSA is the hub, if you like, of the security screening process. It's where the applicati

Public Safety committee  At the moment it is simply a matter of standard procedure. We receive passenger data wheels up, after the plane has left. This means that on a trans-Atlantic flight, for example, we have six or seven hours to examine passenger data and to identify anyone on board who may represen

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely, in a couple of ways that I can think of. First of all, CBSA issues lookouts, which are warnings or red flags concerning an individual. If you are the subject of a lookout and your passport is swiped when you enter Canada, you are automatically referred to a secon

Public Safety committee  Yes, I have made a note of that request and will certainly respond to every aspect of your question.

Public Safety committee  I'll give you a couple of examples of what might happen in that scenario. If CSIS or the RCMP tell us they are interested in a certain individual who may be a terrorist target, who may be planning to leave the country to conduct terrorist activities overseas, they can come to us

Public Safety committee  Yes, that can often be important, too. Also, if they have immediate suspicions that the individual may be on the point of leaving, and we're at an airport and they're not, they may be able to ask us if we can identify an individual in those kinds of cases. Where we don't have au

Public Safety committee  The thing about the no-fly list that may be worth pointing out is that it applies to an individual who is on the list no matter where he boards a plane, which could be in Canada in order to leave Canada just as well as it could be from abroad to come to Canada.

Public Safety committee  I would agree that there are such a number of information-sharing arrangements already in existence between the different parts of the security intelligence community in Canada, and they operate so well on a daily basis, that it's not every time there's a change in legislation th