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Foreign Affairs committee Minus what has been said and that has been made clear. Thank you.
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee To start with, some of this is in retrospect. One need not comment on the individual case. In the end, we have to actually do our very best to get Canadians out. That becomes the issue. If there are other issues involved, obviously we're going to look at those as well in any case
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee If I may say so, I think there is an additional issue. Those are general figures, but if you are questioning us specifically about Daesh.... That's a figure that covers a wider number of people—not just Daesh fighters, but al Shabaab and others.
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee My comments were specifically with regard to where the conversation was going at that point in terms of military intervention. Of course, the government's position is clear about not paying ransom and not giving political compromises. That's very clear. In terms of how we deal w
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee It's a good question. In fact, that support is available at the provincial level. Of course, psychological services and so forth are provided in Canada at that level. What we do at the federal level is to connect up with the provincial level to make sure the right people are conn
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee Each case is different. It hasn't really been so much of a problem in the much smaller number of cases that we deal with. We do deal very carefully on a privacy basis with the families themselves. As you say, when someone is kidnapped, we don't have a contact with them. We're n
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee That totally depends on the situation. There are a number of possible answers. Truly, it really depends. So much depends on what we're actually facing. Are we facing a terrorist demand in which there are more than ransom issues at play? Do they want, for example, the freedom of
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee It's not my area, so you have the right person here. Thank you.
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee That's right. We would provide a risk assessment to the Prime Minister—to any prime minister, of course. I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here, because first of all, my job is not to defend the Prime Minister; my job is to testify to you as a public servant, and of course I am re
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee By principle, the senior decision-maker is the Prime Minister. That's the form of our government. Of course—again, I'm not talking about any particular case—these things are extremely complex, and there is a whole-of-government approach. They are not just a question of military,
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Foreign Affairs committee Good afternoon. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee. My name is David Drake, and I am the Director General of Global Affairs Canada's Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Intelligence Bureau. I have had direct responsibility for and operational oversight of the
March 27th, 2018Committee meeting
David Drake
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Well, certainly I'll get back to you with more details, but the intent is to make sure that we support police border control and judicial systems in dealing with this. In many cases, they simply do not know how to properly process from a judicial perspective. We're certainly focu
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
David Drake
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
David Drake
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee To be honest, I don't know in detail. I know there is some very good information about that, including a U.S. report. The U.S. focuses on this, I think. I've been noting that a lot of your indicators are coming from that report, such as the 77%, and so forth. Although I can't pr
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
David Drake
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you very much. In fact, I was looking to comment on that. This is a part of our anti-crime capacity building program. It's under me in our department. It's not foreign aid per se, and it's very much designed to strengthen the ability of the local governments to deal with s
May 4th, 2017Committee meeting
David Drake