Ms. Sarah Hayward (Director, Visitors, Permits and Horizontal Initiatives, Immigration Program Guidance Branch, Department of Citizenship and Immigration) at the Status of Women Committee

IRCC works very closely with our partners in Public Safety, all the police services and the RCMP.

We do what's called an administrative investigation, which means that we use our database, GCMS. It helps us look for trends and strange anomalies, and then we share this information with our partners who actually do the physical investigation.