Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the new witnesses today. I think Mr. Linklater has his name permanently engraved on the chair he's in right now. He's been with us so often.
Thank you for appearing today and thank you for this discussion on biometrics, because it is hugely important. I know I went through a similar process recently when I got my NEXUS card, where they had to take an iris scan and my fingerprints. I didn't find it to be a particular problem, and it certainly facilitates my travel back and forth very quickly, which to me has been a tremendous convenience.
Mr. Linklater, you just mentioned in your opening comments that there's a secondary process as people come through the immigration line, so to speak, and that there is an opportunity for an officer to then check the biometrics.
Are they checked immediately each time or are they at the discretion of an officer?