Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would bring up the information: the date of birth or whatever information—biometrics, perhaps fingerprints. But the photo has to match the bearer of the passport. It has to be the same photo.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is a resident permit. Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think it's a financial burden. Again, it is a privilege to come to Canada. It is not a right for anybody to come to Canada to work or to study or to visit. It is a privilege. If they don't meet the criteria.... The criteria have been established to benefit Canada, not to benefit the foreign national who is an applicant, and so be it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't think it's a financial burden whatsoever.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, no, that was in the Auditor General's report a few years back. There were removal orders in place against 41,000 people whom they couldn't find. That came out I don't know how many years ago. It was in the former Auditor General's report.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think Immigration might have an idea, but they probably wouldn't, since there's no monitoring afterwards.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, I meant to say everybody who leaves.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would disagree.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Just to follow up on what you said before I answer that, you mentioned one million visitors, over 100,000 students, and I believe I have the statistics...you're referring to 250,000 foreign workers. Just a minute. I have it here somewhere. There were 213,000 foreign workers who came in, and there's a total of 338,000 now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'm Julie Taub. I'm an immigration and refugee lawyer in Ottawa and a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board. I've been practising exclusively in the area of immigration since my appointment to the board, which would have been 1996. I'm a sole practitioner.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, the humanitarian and compassionate considerations start in the criminal justice system because a judge does take that into consideration—takes into consideration the background of every person who is charged, and takes into consideration their immigration situation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I did not say that, and I don't want to have—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  [Inaudible—Editor]...slanderous.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I did not say that. Sorry, I did not say that.