Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I'd first like to talk about the challenges that are currently faced by the CBSA in conducting removals, and then I'd like to describe how the proposed reforms and funding would provide some needed solutions. In the current system, w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. You're referring to the 2008 report from the Auditor General.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed, this proposal would provide sufficient funds for the system that had been identified as lacking previously--the national case management system--in order to manage the cases consistently nationally as well as to track the cost of removals cases. So the short answer is yes

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're not starting from scratch. We have done what we have been able to do in terms of building a better system with available resources, so in the last couple of years we have taken steps to incrementally build our capacity. The projections for the funding here are over five yea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do we track the number of Canadian-born children in detention centres?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think the number would be very high. Perhaps I could turn to my colleague and he may have some new information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Based on....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Based on the planning, that's exactly one of the main objectives.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We currently remove approximately 9,000 failed refugee claimants on an annual basis, and that number has been fairly stable over the last five years. Under the new proposed system, based on the calculations from Citizenship and Immigration, we're anticipating a requirement to rem

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The backlog is substantial. The funding that is proposed to specifically address the backlog is provided over three years, and that would help to reduce the backlog, but it would not eliminate the backlog. So we're looking forward to the three-year evaluation, the evaluation of t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What is that 38 million referring to?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you may be referring to the number of cases in the removal inventory, and that was about 40,000 cases.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of dollars.... This is part of the difficulty. If you were just to take the traditional approach that we have today under the system and hire more enforcement officers, the cost could be quite astronomical. This is why we've proposed the idea of assisted voluntary return

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At the ports of entry, we do not anticipate any significant impact on the work of our border services officers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.