Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of identifying the number of cases, our case management system is not designed or built to isolate the cases dealing specifically with ghost consultants. In terms of the resources available within the RCMP's immigration passport program, we have about 175 full-time empl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the RCMP, with our priority-setting tools, our focus is clearly on organized crime. We allocate our resources, whether to human smuggling, human trafficking, or immigration fraud, based on priority.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the invitation today to appear before you. I am Chief Superintendent Joe Oliver, Director General of Border Integrity for the RCMP. I will focus my brief remarks on the RCMP's enforcement role in relation to immigration offe

Public Safety committee  In the past what was happening is that the contraband would be smuggled across the river to the island and then driven off the island. With the placement of the port of entry there was an adjustment in the market, and for a period of time--a couple of months--we saw that evolving

Public Safety committee  I couldn't agree, because I don't have all of those facts as to whether—

Public Safety committee  I could say that due to the fact that we are working very closely with CBSA and the other partners in the area--we've also deployed new technologies to monitor river traffic--the regional task forces all have an impact.

Public Safety committee  I haven't studied the issue enough to make a value judgment.

Public Safety committee  Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the question.

Public Safety committee  I personally don't have that information.

Public Safety committee  What we are mostly seeing is illicit manufacturing and product that is smuggled into Canada.

Public Safety committee  Yes. We have in the past targeted operations, with the support of the Canada Revenue Agency, at licensed manufacturers who run six or eight hours of legitimate operations and then do nighttime operations. Those manufacturers were disrupted in the past.

Public Safety committee  We had an initial version where we found errors with our statistics. That was in December. We had to have it reproduced, re-edited, and republished. I think it was finalized in January sometime, and then it had to go to translation. So it's been a while in the making.

Public Safety committee  Yes, it was within the last month or last two months. Then it went through the approval process as to what our strategy was to release it.

Public Safety committee  Well, actually that's another anomaly. If you look, for instance, on page—

Public Safety committee  On page 9, there's a reference to an estimated 800,000 cartons of cigarettes seized from January to October 2009.