Public Safety committee  Indeed, it's $25 when fingerprints need to be submitted. That's set by federal regulations.

Public Safety committee  I can't speak on behalf of what police services will do out there, but certainly I would suggest that it's a possibility.

Public Safety committee  It will be as quick as they want to do it. It's a matter of weeks, at most, for us to connect them and do the testing that needs to be done.

Public Safety committee  There's no way to measure that. We do not know how many people have been arrested for criminal offences--how many people have been charged for either indictable or dual-conviction offences--so there's no way for us to track that. The only thing we can do is manage what is submitted to us.

Public Safety committee  Where we're moving with the automation is to make that an almost instantaneous process. We're not there yet, as I mentioned. The automation is ongoing. I think we have the solution now in sort of 85% to 90% of the cases for those people who don't have a criminal record, who have no previous records of any sort.

Public Safety committee  That system is in place. It's now a matter of individual police services.

Public Safety committee  What you've been told isn't true. We keep that document, the 216 form.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's the way it is.

Public Safety committee  To respond to the first part of your question, there's no law in Canada that requires the police to submit fingerprints when people are charged with criminal offences. It is required under young offenders legislation, but in general there is no law that requires police to submit fingerprints.

Public Safety committee  It stays in our system. We'll eventually follow up with the police department.

Public Safety committee  We don't know that.

Public Safety committee  No, we don't have any measures to verify that.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Are you talking about the vulnerable sector specifically here, or in general?

Public Safety committee  It's just in general, okay. I think the short answer is that in the absence of somebody providing fingerprints and that being checked against the fingerprint database, we're doing name-based checks. The response on name-based checks will always leave some room there to say that based on the information, there's no known criminal record information.