One of the challenges we face as members of Parliament—as has been indicated by Ms. Sims on a couple of occasions and Mr. Lamoureux on one during his time—is the inadmissibility of those who want to travel here for a special occasion.
One of the points that she has brought up on a couple of occasions, which brings about this question, is that generally speaking, those who are requesting individuals, their family, friends, or relatives from another country to come here to visit and who require a visa are folks of fairly well-to-do means who are prepared to take on whatever responsibility necessary.
One of the issues we talked about in our security study was the potential of a bond, if you will—a fee that would be associated with the individual's travel here to Canada—and the potential for that bond to be kept by the ministry until that individual.... Now that we're working through our entry and exit tracking strategies, potentially the bond would make sense.
Is this something that the ministry has reviewed, and if so, have you compared it against other countries who are implementing a similar strategy?