Public Safety committee  On Secretary Napolitano's report?

Public Safety committee  To the best of my knowledge at this time, no, they will not be exceeded.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. To echo remarks I made earlier, one of the prime areas where I think we need to continue to evolve relationships is with law enforcement on the gun-smuggling side. A lot of work is going on there now. I think all of us who are involved in these dialogues simply have t

Public Safety committee  I did not make that comment, and I would never make that comment.

Public Safety committee  I take your point completely. I am in total agreement with you that if residents of Canada, Canadian citizens, have been subjected to that, it does stay with them. That is an unacceptable situation for me.

Public Safety committee  No, they're generally deployed in our urban sites, where most of the business is.

Public Safety committee  I am far from an expert on this, but I would say in general we are probably a net importer.

Public Safety committee  Maybe I can get Kimber to comment.

Public Safety committee  The key technology in NEXUS is an RFID chip, which allows it to be actively read by a machine. I think, speaking broadly and without reference to any specific initiative, one of the things that all border agencies globally are interested in is the possibility for exploiting biome

Public Safety committee  Biometrics generally involve the capture of just that, a biometric profile of one sort or another. The sort we use with NEXUS, for example, is an iris scan. You can also use one-, five-, or ten-print fingerprints. There is also biometrics involving facial recognition software, wh

Public Safety committee  The typical customs role in the past was border-focused; it dealt with our operations at the border. In the immigration business, a lot of the activity that we pursue involves working with people who are either in the immigration system in one of our detention holding centres or

Public Safety committee  Formal complaints--and again, if I'm misspeaking here, I'll write and correct the record--I believe are in the 600 to 700 range per year, and that's on 95 million transactions. There's a range of other informal ones that wouldn't be in that count. So the total number is probably

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your questions. With regard to children in our holding centres, the answer is yes. There are children who are detained in our facilities from time to time. It is our general policy to keep families together. When there is a detention of one or the other parent, ge

Public Safety committee  I think that would be a policy position of the government. I have no view on it today.

Public Safety committee  I don't have that figure today, sir. I can get it for you. In terms of ports, the majority of our ports are manned ports. There are some that have barriers, and there are some that are unguarded, in fact. I think it's our long-term proposition, working with our friends on the Ame