There are two issues you touched upon there. The first is a cross-border issue and making sure that what we do here, especially for those individuals who have to go across the border, is similar to what the United States is doing. Mr. Spencer explained to the committee that fingerprints are the only method that is accepted by the TSA for criminal history search vetting. We propose that if the same were done in Canada that would go a long way to aligning the interests of both countries.
The other issue you touched upon was security for the Olympics. Again, security clearances are mandated in lots of legislation. They are never defined, or very rarely defined. They are defined for immigration purposes, where we require people to go get fingerprinted, as opposed to just doing a criminal history search. So the whole notion of a criminal history search needs to be explored not by this committee but by the government at large and really defined along the lines of what they're trying to accomplish in protecting people. In some instances maybe a name and date-of-birth check is perfectly acceptable. For higher-risk categories, perhaps there should be a fingerprint check to make sure that the person's not giving you fake ID or using an alias. You want to make sure that person is there. That would be, obviously, the most secure method of ensuring that somebody who you're entrusting to carry fuel or what not does not have a criminal record.