Thank you.
I'd like to follow up on my previous questions with the department officials.
It's been almost four years—June of 2012—since the legislation passed allowing for biometric data to be collected. The RCMP, as we've heard, is the agency that has this database. With the passage of time, we should now be able to have, or I'd like to request that we be provided with, the data, year by year, on how many individuals were put into the database and how many people, once they became Canadian citizens, were removed from the database.
As well, I have no issue, although some may, with sharing data with the United States, as you referenced. During the testimony, we also heard that we've standardized this process of biometrics with 70-odd countries. Could we be provided with the list of the 70 countries? We obviously wouldn't have issues with our allies in Europe and other allies, but perhaps we could see whether or not we're sharing data and who we've shared this data with. We want to make sure we don't end up with another Arar nightmare by sharing data potentially, especially in this case of the Syrian refugees. We don't know what the future holds. We do know that with police departments, once they have information, there tends to be a cultural reluctance to eliminate that sort of that information.
It would be good to have the information, not just how they eliminate it once these are Canadian citizens, because the legislation clearly was intended only to gather information on those who are entering the immigration process, not on Canadian citizens. Perhaps we could get a list of that information year by year, the 70 countries that were referenced that perhaps we are sharing this information with, and the number of individual cases where we've shared information with those particular countries.