Public Accounts committee  Certainly, Mr. Chair. For the most part, it is our belief that situations where you have ten people in a cell for three are an extreme exception. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but we don't believe it happens frequently. We have a couple of other things. Number one, we hav

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Not all countries have visa requirements. Mexico, for example, is one of those countries. Nonetheless, we do work with both visa and visa-exempt countries through what we refer to as our migration integrity officers. We have officers posted abroad who work with the ai

Public Accounts committee  In terms of people arriving at either the land border or at airports, our officers would conduct the same level of rigour, the same sorts of questions, and make the same sorts of determinations in terms of how we are going to treat refugee applicants, as an example In terms of

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity today to address the committee on our progress in addressing the Auditor General's observations and recommendations on our responsibilities for the detention and removal of individuals from Canada. In today's uncerta

Public Safety committee  No. It's Transport Canada.

Public Safety committee  The government has indicated that it wishes to examine the possibility of creating a border patrol between the efforts of my organization, the RCMP, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. At the present time we are developing options for the minister's consideration.

Public Safety committee  I can't comment. The no-fly list, as you call it, I believe is a list that is administered by the Department of Transport. What the Canada Border Services Agency deals with is information coming from airlines after the takeoff of aircraft, and we deal with that from a customs and

Public Safety committee  Certainly. We have had a number of advertising campaigns promoting the use of NEXUS, and we hope to have some more over the next year. At the same time, we have increased the number of enrolment centres around the country at airports and in some places on the land border. Also, b

Public Safety committee  Well, certainly it's part and parcel of the WHTI effort. I think it's the intention of the U.S. government to ensure that they are moving in the direction of having RFID capacity in as many of the documents as possible for individuals they see crossing the border southbound. For

Public Safety committee  The total budget for the project is $781 million over ten years, commencing in 2006. We are on plan and on budget to complete it in 2016. To date, in the period ending with the conclusion of last month, we have armed 717 officers. That puts us pretty much where we had expected to

Public Safety committee  Yes, we are involved in all of the exercises that are proceeding right now with regard to Olympic preparation. I can also indicate, Monsieur Ménard, that we have recently completed business continuity plans for all of our ports and headquarters locations and we will be respondin