Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Oct. 5th, 2017

[Niall Cronin]

Basically we've asked our embassy and consuls general to identify those organizations or influential people in their regions who have connections into this community, to make contact with them, and to maintain those conversations on a regular basis. They're reporting back to us on how those are going and what they are learning. We are passing that on to IRCC. That is being complemented by.... I think it was Minister Hussen, or one of the officials from IRCC, who mentioned that they are looking at more media monitoring, especially Spanish-language media in the U.S.

So we're pulling all of that together.

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

I'm wondering if it's possible for your department to undertake to provide information to this committee specifically with respect to issues that have surfaced around human smuggling and what could be shared with us, so that the committee can be aware of it and can take that into consideration with respect to this study we are working on right now.

[Niall Cronin]

I can take that back, for sure.

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Thank you very much.

[The Chair, Liberal, Rob Oliphant]

You have 20 seconds.

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

As a quick last question, aside from the staffing and the tents, in terms of the information that's been provided, are there are any additional resources being provided that have not been spoken about today? I wonder if that could also be provided in the information that will be brought back to our committee.

[BGen Lise Bourgon]

Yes, no problem.

[The Chair, Liberal, Rob Oliphant]

Thank you. I think that draws our questioning to a close.

Thank you very much for your time with us, as well as your testimony, which is very helpful for the committee. That draws to a close our briefing period on the irregular border crossings.

I want to remind the committee that after the constituency week, we have our expedited process on Motion M-39, the Atlantic study. We have eight hours of meetings that week. We have two special or unusual or irregular meetings happening that week.

Our hope is to have seven hours of witness testimony to complete that, and then the eighth hour of that week will be on instructions for the analyst. I'm asking the committee to be as rigorous with our instructions as possible to help our analyst with the report. On your constituency week, you might want to be thinking about that—there is a summary of evidence that has been provided by the analyst—and then we can be as expeditious as possible in getting that done.

I see no other business.

The meeting is adjourned.