Citizenship and Immigration committee  The service isn't involved in the exchange of biometric evidence. It's primarily between law enforcement and our partners at the service.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Leckey might want to add to that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Visa requests were separate. If you add visa requests, which in our case were about 71,000, the numbers add up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the case of the service, we would take those data fields and run them through our classified intelligence databases looking for hits, whether on the name or on other data that may have been provided as part of the application.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can start the answer, but I'm sure my CBSA colleague will want to chime in when I'm finished, because it does cut across our interests. I referred earlier to the effort under way to look at IRPA and IRPA's current approach to inadmissibility provisions. Of course, when you're

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The only thing I'll mention is that there is an interdepartmental effort now to review the inadmissibility provisions of IRPA. Although that process hasn't been finalized and recommendations haven't been presented yet, I think that will lead to some improvements.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Out of just under 300,000 requests to the service—immigration-related, permanent resident, refugee determination, citizenship—in the last fiscal year, 667 briefs were provided with that information to CBSA. That translates into a different number in terms of what they do with it,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Roughly 300,000 requests came in to the service, and 667 times we responded to those requests by going to CBSA and saying, “Here is a brief with some concerns about the individual in question”. So it's a very small number in relation to the total volume that we do checks on.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We had information that meant they could have been inadmissible under IRPA.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That was in one year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's just the share that are referred to the service. That's just a slice of the overall immigration process.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From the services perspective, it will have less of an impact because of our role in providing advice about the person, but we certainly see it as being of great utility to our CIC, CBSA, and RCMP colleagues in making sure that we're checking the right person and that the person

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would only add that my CBSA colleague is correct, certainly, in terms of our attempts to maximize our use of technology and software to assist. We also place a considerable effort on ensuring thorough training of our people to make sure they are best equipped to deal with the c