Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may, I think it's important, as we look into how the nature of the security environment we find ourselves in has changed—unfortunately, asymptotically—and how we are talking about transnational actors, independent actors, in a very complicated environment.... The fact of t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to fall back on my position that it's not my place to comment on the provisions of your law that you're considering. I will sit here and say to you, though, that we have to work through, both from a legal perspective and an operational perspective, all the processes tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir. I am not aware of mandatory detention for the sake of detention or as part of a litany of actions that have to be carried out. Obviously we use probable cause, and if there is reason to take law enforcement action to detain a group, so that you can ascertain wha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Now we're getting a little bit out of my area of expertise, but I can sit here and say to you that one of the things we did is we brought immigration and customs, border patrol, and the United States Coast Guard together under the auspices of the Secretary of Homeland Security. O

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly. First let me say that information sharing amongst our nations continually improves and is at a very high state. I know I, for one, worked very closely with ITAC when I was at NCTC, worked very closely with the Canadian defence forces at the Department of Defence. B

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't consider myself an expert in biometrics, per se, but we have to realize that biometrics is along a line of progression where perhaps we were with fingerprints or photography or dental or DNA testing years ago. This is a continuum, and we have to be able to develop our pro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me here today. I am honoured to be a great friend of Canada and a senior adjunct faculty member at the centre of excellence. It is at my colleagues’ request that I have joined them today