Public Safety committee  Only to say that since we do not know in advance that a person is about to leave on a plane, we will not have a systematic way of monitoring that, so we would have to rely on precise information given by law enforcement authorities or CSIS.

Public Safety committee  That information, if it was provided before wheels up—before the plane departs—would allow us to identify individuals who are on the plane who are suspect, but this doesn't exist at the moment.

Public Safety committee  We do not have the technical capability at this point.

Public Safety committee  The no-fly list identifies individuals who might pose a potential threat to the conveyance itself.

Public Safety committee  It could be potentially relevant. I would have to study this a bit more, but the idea of the no-fly list is to identify individuals who, if they go onto that plane, will cause a threat to the plane itself, not because they are going overseas to carry out some terrorist-related ac

Public Safety committee  Yes, we do agree with this comment. We have two officers seconded to ITAC. We're fully participating in this venture of organizations, and we're providing all the information that is available to us and would be of relevance to the role of ITAC.

Public Safety committee  I'm afraid I'm not in on the secrets of the gods, as they say. All I can say is that API/PNR is a series of data information that is provided by the airline companies to Canada, but that's on the way in.

Public Safety committee  Yes. This is the information the CBSA uses and applies risk assessment methods to in order to identify high-risk individuals so that they are examined when they come to goods and conveyances.

Public Safety committee  Yes. Since there are no records of your exiting the country, we don't know if you've left or not. So if you are, let's say, a refugee claimant and your claim has been denied, we don't actually know if you've left the country, yes or no. For the integrity of the immigration progr

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I understand what you mean by searching?

Public Safety committee  The information that would be collected in the exit information would be used to close that loop and to find out which individuals have left the country. Enforcement would put those who haven't left on a list of people we're looking for.

Public Safety committee  My job is to look at how the CBSA allocates resources at the border and use a risk approach to allocate the resources where it matters the most, so I have a more detached view. But I would say that more generally, the more accurate the information, the more we are able to identif

Public Safety committee  I'm the executive director of the risk management and foresight division within the program branch.