Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. As you may know, I'm a criminal defence and immigration and refugee lawyer here in Vancouver. I began my career at the Immigration Prevention Centre, in the Montreal region, while I was studying law.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the problems of coordination between the two with regard to the application of the law, I suppose I might not be necessarily in the best position.... I mean, I can comment on individual cases and in terms of my experience with respect to individual cases in terms of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the most part, I would say that in these types of cases, part of the situation is that we don't always have the full picture of the cases that we're talking about—why the exact delay has happened, what the causes of the different delays were, what took place—and the overall p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. Whether the electronic...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think ultimately the tools.... In terms of the implementation of the tools, I think there's a number of tools that can be quite useful in terms of implementing border security and whether we implement that security at different points. My suggestion at the beginning, and I wo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  [Inaudible—Editor]...going to be unsafe. Sorry?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's fine.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Biometrics is a tool that we've used for a long time. A passport photo is a biometric tool. So in the sense of saying that we use biometrics—fingerprints are used commonly in the immigration system as it is now—we do use biometrics. I think the question you're asking is whether

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is a good question, which is fairly complex and very difficult to answer. It raises many questions. Different people will be affected in different ways. The committee must decide which of the affected people will be taken into consideration and who the stakeholders are, with

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that the act is currently worded in a very broad way. I have not seen any cases where it was impossible to remove a convicted war criminal. It's a matter of knowing whether the legislation is too broad. We are talking about the application of the legislation here. We are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I work in both the criminal justice system and the immigration system. To take an example in the criminal justice system, there have been attempts—and I believe the Mayor of Toronto recently made comments to this effect as to whether—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In which case.... I don't have a yes or no answer for you, if that's what you're—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry—can I comment?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks to the members of the committee for inviting me to appear before you today. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with your Senate colleagues about Bill C-24. At that time, I expressed serious reservations about the bill, which was subsequen