Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to you, Madam Fraser, and your team for appearing here today.
Before dealing with your most recent report, I would like to get back to a previous report that included a section on immigration where you stated, if I recall, that 41,000 individuals were facing a notice of deportation, or of inadmissibility, and that the agency had essentially lost sight of them.
You also said that it was difficult for the agency to expend energy finding them because there was simply no way of knowing whether or not they had left the country. At the time you stated that that was due, in part, to the fact that there were no exit controls in Canada. If I recall correctly, you have made no recommendation to that effect.
Can you tell me whether any news to this effect has been brought to your attention by the government? Do you think it would be advisable for the committee to consider the option of establishing exit controls in Canada? Would that be an advisable option? Should we carry out a cost-benefit analysis? There are inherent costs in creating exit controls, but there are also advantages to be had.
Recently there have been television reports of citizenship fraud: people sometimes leave the country for years while pretending that they are still here. Do you believe the committee should put some effort into this issue?