Evidence of meeting #23 for Public Safety and National Security in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was s-2.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Mark Holland Liberal Ajax—Pickering, ON
I don't know how the other members feel, but I feel fairly well versed on this. I don't think there's a necessity to hold the witnesses through our clause-by-clause, but I defer to other committee members.
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Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
I don't need it, but if there is no issue, I'm wondering whether we couldn't do it all. Can we do it all at once?
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Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
Just in the event that there was a question, I'd rather have the—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
That's why I think something may come up here.
Monsieur Menard?
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Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
Most lawyers I know carry all their documents with them. You cannot search a computer, can you?
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Vice-President, Enforcement Branch, Canada Border Services Agency
Actually, Mr. Menard, we do have ways to do that. We actually have a technological program called the computer evidence search recovery. We can obviously open up the laptop or the computer. If there's something in particular that we suspect could be contraband or in violation of any of the laws of Canada, we do have technology to allow us to search for that on the computer.
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Vice-President, Enforcement Branch, Canada Border Services Agency
I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, I don't have that much technological expertise.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
I'm sure that technology is advancing and the border agencies are probably challenged to keep up with all the changes in the technology.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Right.
Okay, I'll just continue going through these.
(Clause 2 agreed to)
I've been advised that if we wish, to save time, we don't have to go through each one.
(Clauses 3 to18 inclusive agreed to)
Shall the title carry?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
We are done. I think that has to be some kind of a record.
This committee really works well. I would like to commend everybody for their work on this.
If there's no further business at this meeting, we shall adjourn. I'd like to thank the witnesses for their time and for being here.
There will now be no meeting on Thursday.
My regrets, Mr. Davies. You had consented to chair the meeting. I guess you're out of a job. Sorry about that.
This meeting stands adjourned.