Public Safety committee  Actually, Mr. Menard, we do have ways to do that. We actually have a technological program called the computer evidence search recovery. We can obviously open up the laptop or the computer. If there's something in particular that we suspect could be contraband or in violation of

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, I don't have that much technological expertise.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Ménard. That's a very good question. It is the minister who will designate at the end of the day where the boundaries of the customs-controlled area will be. That will be based on advice from CBSA officials based on our risk assessment. We would look at, for examp

Public Safety committee  The designation takes place through regulations. So it will go through the regulatory process.

Public Safety committee  We have this provision in here in case there are people or persons who fall outside of the prescribed persons who would be already provided for in the regulations, such as—as I mentioned before—the domestic workers, etc. And it envisages situations where, for example, we may have

Public Safety committee  First of all, the people in there have to have the lawful authority to be in there. This is what this provision refers to. Once the people are in there—and they could be international travellers, domestic travellers, or domestic workers—then it is the discretion of the CBSA offic

Public Safety committee  I can say that when officers seize documents, immediately the holder of those documents could claim solicitor-client privilege. Then we would go into another route as to how those documents would be protected.

Public Safety committee  That's right.

Public Safety committee  From my perspective, as we said before, the search powers here that are provided to officers don't change from the authorities that they already have. And as I previously mentioned, given that we already have training on how to exercise the search authority, and that this would i

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wish to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity to address Bill S-2, an act to amend the Customs Act. This legislation has made good progress through the Senate and House, and I'm pleased to emphasize the value of the tools it will provide to t

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. At this time we are investigating some cases around human smuggling and human trafficking. The challenge in this type of criminal activity is actual intelligence on the extent to which it exists. I think my colleagues from the RCMP would agree it's a crime t

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Mr. Norlock, you are quite correct. We've installed radiation detection portals at all of our major marine ports of Halifax, Montreal, and Prince Rupert in northern B.C., and we are in the process of finalizing the installations in our Vancouver terminals. The radiat

Public Safety committee  It is specifically for explosives. It may pick up a certain type of weaponry that has a certain type of explosive material associated with it, but its primary focus is chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Actually, the reason Quebec is no longer implementing the program is because the funding ceased in 2006-07. The funding also ceased for Toronto. So the funding was only for 2005-06 and 2006-07. As a result of that, what Toronto did was integrate the approach it had ta

Public Accounts committee  We don't know. I'll get back to you on that.