I'm actually trying to determine whether we have any arrangements with provinces or territories with respect to provincial-territorial social service providers. I'm going to give you an example.
Obviously we've done a lot of bills within this committee. We've looked at a lot of initiatives to crack down on welfare fraud and so on. But we've heard from witnesses and there have been cases where someone has come to Canada and they've put an address on their application, and later on that application is denied for whatever reason. I'm not going to talk about a specific stream or anything else, but lo and behold, that person may or may not reside at that address. It may be a fictitious address. In fact, we may not even know if they're still in the country.
I come from Ontario. Scarborough Centre is my riding, and welfare is administered by the Ontario provincial government.
At the same time, this individual has applied for Ontario welfare, and the address they may have used on that application is not the same one they came to Canada with—at the federal level we know that from the application. So although they've been deemed to be illegal or inadmissible, or they've been asked to leave, they're still collecting welfare cheques somewhere. Whether or not they're still in the country—it's going somewhere, to a relative, a friend, an organized crime ring, or whatever the case is.
I guess my question is, do we have any information-sharing agreements with provinces or territories with respect to this specific area that I'm concerned about?