Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you want to try that one?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think Monsieur Sabourin talked about the liaison officers who do interdiction, but also facilitate Canadian citizens coming back.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly we have a case management branch at headquarters that deals with the exception or making sure that cases that have gone off the rails are dealt with. We have mechanisms to look at that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Right now, when we do fingerprints, the system is very much paper-based. This new system will permit us to exchange these things electronically with the RCMP very quickly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We fingerprint all refugee claimants in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In part, it will be with the support of the RCMP, who will be able to check what they have through their databases. It will also permit us to identify not only criminals but people who may have another name that they have used in the past. We're going to start being able to identify where people have used different aliases to get into Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As Mr. Linklater said, we are already sharing with four or five like-minded countries.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We exchange presently, on a pilot basis, with the United States, Australia, the U.K., and New Zealand. But the issue is that the fingerprints we take are sent to the RCMP. The RCMP has many other countries they exchange criminal information with, so we already have more of a base of information available to us.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the other things that's happening around the world is the use of e-passports. Some countries also have biometrics in them. We're starting small and going to build on it, so that will permit us.... On the comment about people in your riding, and so on, some of the information we share with Australia, the U.S., and the U.K. is exactly about nationals from these other countries who have been either refugee claimants in other countries or have committed crimes in other countries.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't give you too much precision on that yet. We're still in the planning stage for the biometrics project. But we know that to roll out a project like this—and I would call it a big bang to try to do everybody at the same time—it doesn't necessarily work very well. We have experience with the global case management, where we tried to do too much and it took a little longer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Having served in Colombo, I can say that I didn't see too many cases fitting that profile that actually were refused, but I'll take your point that this is happening.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. At the end of the day, people are refused visitor visas because we are concerned about the bona fides of the application. It could be for security or criminality, or it could simply be that we're concerned that if they come to Canada, they will not leave Canada. For that reason, they are refused.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you have cases like that—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —I'd be glad to hear about them.