Human Resources committee  The information-sharing agreement will stipulate that information has to be automatically provided to the department on who is freed from incarceration. Then the individual will notify us.

Human Resources committee  The OAS program provides individuals with what's called an option. So rather than waiting to get data from CRA on the level of income, one can make a declaration and exercise the option of indicating that you will indeed have lower income for the current year and have an immediat

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I think what the department needs is a confirmation that the inmate is actually out of custody, out of prison, out of the penitentiary. A target date is a target date. A potential date is a potential date. But until it happens, there's still a possibility that the date could be c

Human Resources committee  Maybe my colleague will want to speak to this. That language is not used in the federal government. It's used in the United States under a different system. In our system, with parole, etc., it's not the language that is used. I think it's used in some provinces.

Human Resources committee  Yes, with pleasure. Our shared view is that the current text of the proposed bill would allow the inmate to contact Service Canada ahead of release so that we can go through the legwork of establishing the right entitlement, etc. So there's nothing preventing the inmate from doi

Human Resources committee  Exactly. The language was chosen so that we don't.... If the language says it must be done before, and for some reason it's not done, then maybe we're in a conundrum. So the language now allows before or after.

Human Resources committee  Pardon me, sir, could you repeat that?

Human Resources committee  Yes. It will be put in place if the bill is adopted. Yes, that is correct.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I think so. I think we're set up to do precisely that, to get in touch with the inmate before the release and ask for the information. Pursuant to our information exchange agreement with Correctional Service, we get the other prong that you mentioned. They're not interchangeable

Human Resources committee  I think so, yes.

Human Resources committee  That's correct.

Human Resources committee  I understand the aim of the amendment, clearly, and I think the legislation does it well with the current language.

Human Resources committee  That is indeed the case. Correctional Services has no jurisdiction over provincial prison facilities and so on, so this will be a subject of a separate information sharing agreement. It does exclude the province. The amendment proposed would be only for application at the federal