Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  To reiterate, we don't have any legal authority to check containers for counterfeit goods coming in or out of the country. That was from the discussion earlier. Generally speaking, customs officials do have the authority to inspect exports leaving the country, provided that, ag

Public Safety committee  As I mentioned earlier, we've come across approximately a thousand shipments on an annual basis. I should emphasize, though, that these shipments that are discovered in the course of our administration of the Customs Act are not necessarily large. We're not talking about necessar

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I understand what cassava is.

Public Safety committee  I don't know. I can't speak specifically to that, but I can tell you that the range of goods is significant. In terms of breakdown, most often what we're seeing are the designer clothing goods.

Public Safety committee  Not specifically. As I indicated earlier, we don't have a program specifically on counterfeiting and interdiction of counterfeit goods. For the reasons we outlined earlier, we don't have the legal authority to be doing the targeting and detection. That being said, we have develop

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't go so far as to define them as counterfeit specialists. What I would say is that by reason of them dealing with these goods in their day-to-day activities they have developed a certain experience and expertise around counterfeit products.

Public Safety committee  I can't give you figures with respect to actual cost for resources. What I could share with you is the current number of interdictions we're doing of counterfeit goods via the means I explained earlier, whereby we come by them in the enforcement of the Customs Act or in associati

Public Safety committee  It is part of the various analyses we're going through with our interdepartmental partners as to the various options we might pursue. Of course, ancillary to that would be that if we chose that option, we would look at this type of cost implication, but because we haven't come to

Public Safety committee  Yes, I do. I realize that my colleagues from the RCMP and the Department of Justice have already made remarks with respect to border enforcement, so I will keep my introduction brief. I do thank you for the opportunity to present on the manner in which the Canada Border Services

Status of Women committee  With respect to the issue of training our officers abroad on the elements of human trafficking, our migration integrity officers, whom I mentioned in my opening remarks and who are stationed at 39 countries abroad, do get specialized training in human trafficking issues. They are

Status of Women committee  I understand you're pressed for time, so I'm going to try to paraphrase my remarks as well. The Canada Border Services Agency contributes to the fight against trafficking in persons by helping to prevent traffickers from transporting their victims to Canada, by helping to ident

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can answer your first question with respect to the conditions of release. As Mr. Therrien mentioned earlier, the conditions vary depending on the individual who is released. Mr. Suresh, for example, is out on a $40,000 cash bond, as well as an additional $150,000 performance

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can answer that in part, but Mr. Therrien might also like to provide his point of view on this. As he mentioned earlier, one of the concerns has been the length of time in detention. The fact of the matter remains that from the government's point of view, these individuals are