Public Accounts committee  No, Mr. Chair, we didn't look at the cuts. We looked at what was happening currently at the border and the information that was available to us for the past couple of years.

Public Accounts committee  Well, that's probably a very good question to ask Canada Border Services Agency, which is dealing with the airlines. I don't know that we have a lot of information on why it's happening. I will ask my colleague, Nick, if he has anything to add on that.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we found on the CBSA side that they did have a risk assessment integrated plan in place, and they were working with other agencies. We have it in our report, I believe, in paragraphs 5.62, 5.63, and 5.64. We found that they've been doing a pretty good job in that area.

Public Accounts committee  We did.

Public Accounts committee  We looked to see if they had done it, and we saw that they had done it.

Public Accounts committee  I believe we have in the report the cost that was given to us by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. It was $26,000 per claimant. That was the figure we used as an example. While we don't have good, robust data on the costs for a lot of these activities, we were able to say that

Public Accounts committee  That's right, yes.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, our audit concluded the controls that are put in place by the two agencies responsible for preventing illegal entry were not preventing illegal entry all of the time. More concerning was the question about who was getting through. While we were able to do a survey and

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I will ask Nick to add on anything. What we were looking for was actually a direct answer to your question. Are we getting better? How are we doing overall against the five controls for CBSA we looked at, and for the control mechanisms the RCMP have? Unfortunately,

Public Accounts committee  I will hand that to Martin Bolduc.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to point out that we do recognize with the new national targeting program that they have in place, which was what we were commenting on a lot in 2007, that they have focused and done some good work in there. That's where we saw that they were putting in pl

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, thank you for this opportunity today to appear before the committee to discuss our 2013 Fall Report, Chapter 5- Preventing Illegal Entry into Canada. With me today is Nicholas Swales, Principal for this audit. The Canada Border Services Agency a

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The advance passenger information and the passenger name record are data elements about the person flying, such as who you are, where you are from, what your nationality is, what travel documents you have, how many bags you brought on board, and what kind o

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The area that we looked at, we tried to track life events and looked at how people do certain transactions to life events. Newborns came up because it was one where we have had success with the provinces. Other than that, from what we looked at, there wasn

Public Accounts committee  That's right, it's more of a focus.