Fisheries committee  I don't believe so. With any further details on the types of labelling you referenced, I could potentially provide a more comprehensive answer. The labelling within export declarations is very important. The labelling of goods for export is certainly important for export verifications that might be done by the CBSA or a Customs and Border Protection officer in the commercial motor-vehicle stream of land ports of exit.

Fisheries committee  We ensure that there is an enforcement layer and certainly compliance. We do not necessarily track the trade data. However, based on the systems that we have, we may be able to capture that information, as you requested and as the committee requires, and would commit to submit whatever we can to identify how many of the commercial motor vehicles may have been destined for the United States through the main ports of exit.

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question, Mr. Chair. Specifically, there's an amount of administrative reporting or a number of permits that need to be sought for certain types of exports. The compliance measures are those that would surface all the types of information that are important to us.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. It's my pleasure to expand on the targeting program. Our national targeting centre, the NTC, is a 24-7, fairly large, robust and extremely capable targeting centre that applies scenario-based targets, algorithms, intelligence, research and open-source research to ensure that we are doing our best to secure the borders.

Fisheries committee  Specific to salmon, for any type of export, there is a certain amount of requirement to report what is being exported.

Fisheries committee  I'm not specifically aware of what all the different permit requirements are for each individual commodity or type of fish, but it's something that we could verify and stratify for the committee, if required, in writing.

Fisheries committee  Again, I think there is a variety of different layers of legislation and regulatory frameworks that apply to those different types of fish and fish products, or anything that is harvested. We do have a variety of different compliance mechanisms in place that will require the surfacing of those types of information.

Fisheries committee  I cannot speak to whether or not the minister had informed our department. What I would say is that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is certainly an issue for the CBSA, and we ensure that we have compliance measures in place to find and to intervene where illegal exports are destined abroad.

Fisheries committee  My colleague may have something to add, but for doing cross-border commercial shipments, there is a certain amount of reporting required that would be verified on export. In addition, Customs and Border Protection in the United States also have their own measures that they apply at the border to ensure that these are safe and legitimate exports.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. I'm Dan Anson, and I am the director general of intelligence and investigations within the intelligence and enforcement branch of the CBSA. With me is Cathy Toxopeus, DG of commercial programs within the commercial and trade branch. Mr. Chair, members of the committee, I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the committee's study of illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries and share with the committee the roles and responsibilities of the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA, in the monitoring of fish and seafood imports and exports.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Statistically speaking, we can use that as a sample that would potentially represent an overall increase in what the denominator would be in terms of the overall volume. That is a reflection presumably of an increase in volumes, but we cannot necessarily determine what we are not catching at the border.

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. Regarding the pattern of firearms flow across the border, particularly with regard to illicit firearms that have been seized, we've definitely seen approximately 1,100 over the past two years. It was 1,109 two years ago. Notwithstanding the gap in time over the pandemic, when we would have seen an artificial reduction in volumes due to the limited travel, that is still an approximately 40% increase from the prepandemic levels.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. Just to clarify one point, we absolutely are a significant point in the process. Bringing refugees into Canada is not something that we've necessarily lost control of. It's not necessarily an issue, but it's something I'm not speaking to today. Regarding the specific question you asked, though, yes, there are refugees from new countries of origin who are arriving in Canada.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question also. I cannot necessarily speak to what is not working. I can certainly speak to what is working. I would say that, thanks to increased support and awareness, the CBSA, in particular, has worked diligently to increase our awareness and to increase and evolve, in an iterative fashion, the range of training that is provided to BSOs, ensuring that our ports of entry are not mechanisms for supporting or facilitating the trafficking of persons, particularly women, girls and gender-diverse people who will then be exploited here domestically.

Status of Women committee  In terms of the immigration continuum and in consideration of assessing each individual case, I'm not qualified to speak to that. That is certainly the domain of IRCC, and that is an issue, probably, for the case management area within IRCC. I cannot speak to that other than, again, to highlight the fact that there are mechanisms in place and options available to people who already have been victimized or traumatized.