Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity to appear before the committee as you begin discussions on the security of Canada's immigration system. In chapter 2 of our most recent report in the fall of 2011, we looked at the processes followed and the information made available

Public Accounts committee  There are reasons for that. Different departments are involved. There is CSIS, the RCMP, the Canadian Border Services Agency and CIC. We have to make decisions and there is information to look at. We did not look into the system in other departments because the Canadian Border Se

Public Accounts committee  It does. In this audit, we limited ourselves to the part of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that says that there are some health reasons and some security reasons why you cannot enter Canada. We looked at the system in place, with CIC and the Canadian Border Services

Public Accounts committee  One of the things that really stood out for us was how quickly everyone responded and that the departments were able to work within an extremely short amount of time with very limited information to put together very well-developed plans and budgets. While they were very high and

Public Accounts committee  I don't think there's anything really to add to that. We did ask if there was more documentation available other than through the normal channels, which would be Infrastructure Canada, and we were given, as Mr. Wiersema said, a few documents, but they really were not helpful in d

Public Accounts committee  We had already seen a blank version of the application form, so we had noticed on the bottom who you were to send applications to, which is why we approached the minister's office. But in the course of the audit there was nothing forthcoming.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. We made simple investigations into why it was $50 million, but there was really very little information available. We had asked, through the normal course of doing our interviews, the departments that were involved in this, but they had explained to us that it

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. I believe you are referring to paragraph 7.37, where they are talking about exercises. While we found that some exercises were conducted, they were not able to get as many exercises under way as they initially had hoped. There were issues regarding getting all

Public Accounts committee  In some cases, yes.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. I believe we are talking about two things. When you talk about the national plan, you are talking mainly about how the federal government is working with the provinces and territories and municipalities. That's something we didn't particularly address in this a

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. I will have to draw your attention back to the 2005 chapter. Fortunately, I happen to have it in front of me. Some of the recommendations basically looked at, in dealing with the security of the passport application, the integrity of the information, guarding infor

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. I think the first thing in the Canada first defence strategy was the change in focus on buying new equipment.That would have had a significant impact on the department. Secondly, as you mentioned, there was the commitment to grow the Canadian Forces. There as

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. The department's budget, as you know, is increasing over time. I think we have a graph here in the chapter that indicates--it's 5.3, on page 6--where the budget is going. A lot of that is there to help the department with its acquisitions

Public Accounts committee  If I may, Mr. Chairman, I'll answer that question. If I understand, you're asking about the $7 million and the $6.6 million. These were inventory counts. National Defence went in, basically to do a spot check: “This is what we expect to see. Is it there?” If items were not ther

National Defence committee  When we looked at, basically, where are the doctors and what are they doing, our concern at that time was, why is there a shortage of doctors? We were able to find that a certain number of them were applying direct hands-on patient care in the clinics, but there's also a requirem