Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, it's always an honour and a pleasure to be here in front of committee. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to build on Professor Gilbert's observations. Rightly she pointed out that consumer protection is a requirement here. Privacy must be guarded. I wish to highlight a problem that I've seen here. I'd like to ring the alarm bell about another group that will be adversely

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a variety of classifications. For example, there are people who have a similar name or same name and a similar or same birth date. I'm thinking, for example, of someone with the last name Mohammed born January 1, 1985. People from some regions in the world don't have th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Even better, I've had clients go through the American system to test it out. I had to resolve their no-fly issues. I am amazed at the efficiency and speed of the U.S. system. It's a government travel department in the United States, and you send, through their website, your doc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's their system, but they have service standards that we do not. Yes, we're on the right track. There's nothing wrong with gathering an extra layer of tombstone information like this. It makes management of government and, in some instances, private sector, easier and cheaper

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, and here's why. We're already collecting the identical information in more than one Canadian system, the advanced passenger information system, for one. Residency fraud is combatted these days through the matrix of memoranda of understanding that are signed with other countri

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It can, though with two caveats. It's sort of like tweeting. When you tweet or use social media, that information is captured by the world forever. Carved in stone is an old analogy; this is electronic. What if you have the misfortune to have as your residential address in this

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Some of my former clients resided there, and because the address was similar—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They were not guilty, but they got caught in the net and it took a while to get them out. That's what you have to guard against with this stuff.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is no silver bullet for terrorism. I don't see a rational, logical connection. On the other hand, the point is well served regarding consumer protection. Mischievously I will add that I see a growing trend between two classes of traveller: the frequent more wealthy NEXUS c

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It certainly will. It's the closing of the Canadian box. Our entries and exits as Canadians ultimately will now be reported not just to the Canadian government, but, due to the matrix of information sharing, to other governments. I kept hearing from our witness in Washington the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The way to do it cheaply, effectively, without oversight, without monitoring control from this institution, is to connect this operation up to the User Fees Act because the service standard is set by law. If the affected department fails to deliver 90%-plus on the service standar

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It may be late in the game, Mr. Chair, but--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It opens the door to these approaches, effectively. Furthermore, in my opinion, it is clear that the Americans are putting pressure on us to introduce this type of system. Is this enough justification for Canada to adopt it completely? We heard testimony from other people. It is