Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it is chief superintendent.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Human smuggling is a global problem that is controlled by organized crime. Our experience has demonstrated that human smuggling involves a network of networks. Globally placed individuals seeking to enter into Canada can be recruited through a number of facets. When we talk about

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I must distinguish between human smuggling and human trafficking. Human smuggling involves an arrangement where someone pays for passage. Human trafficking is where people are coerced and forced for either sexual or labour exploitation. In some cases it can transition from human

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the important thing is that's where we would have to rely on other provisions, either of the Criminal Code, or we can actually engage criminal organization provisions where we can actually go after their proceeds of crime--those types of investigations. So there exists th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the fraud, under the Criminal Code they are very serious offences, and I think the penalty section carries--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The offences the RCMP deals with, primarily frauds and so forth, are very serious, and we would invest the resources in pursuing the cases internationally.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a large variety of ways in which these offences are reported. It could be through somebody who has been victimized themselves or through somebody who knows there has been a victim, somebody who is aware that someone has been victimized, but they may be intimidated to co

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's interesting that you raise China, because we actually have an MOU with the Ministry of Public Security in China, which covers offences under immigration. That was recently signed. And there is a Canada-China working group, which both Peter and I sit on. We meet either annual

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a couple of MOs, I guess we would call them, for how these consultants work. There are cases of people knowingly working with corrupt consultants to get expedited access or to get access to Canada that they wouldn't otherwise have. In one case we're investigating, the met

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know the legal rationale for it, but in terms of the practical application, when we're talking about a summary conviction offence, where the penalty would potentially be fairly minor, to now invest police resources in an investigation that may be dated and to find evidenc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may follow up, one element of evidence is having somebody who will actually testify. In other cases we could rely heavily on document evidence, video evidence, records that they keep in their computers. We could use undercover techniques to infiltrate and actually put forwar

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have that statistic.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would mislead the committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we'll provide that.