Transport committee  Sure.

Transport committee  Has there been anybody who has appealed to the court with respect to the determination of the TSA on whether they're vetted or not?

Transport committee  I don't think there are any charter issues. I'm not here to speak about the charter issues and I'm certainly not an expert on the charter issues. Our experience has been that neither in the act nor in regulations is a security clearance clearly defined. Really, all we're lookin

Transport committee  There are two issues you touched upon there. The first is a cross-border issue and making sure that what we do here, especially for those individuals who have to go across the border, is similar to what the United States is doing. Mr. Spencer explained to the committee that finge

Transport committee  We most definitely do. We think that proposed section 27.1, which mandates the need for security clearance, is an important part of the bill. We fully support that. All we are asking is for some consideration on a definition of what a security clearance is. It's not defined in th

Transport committee  Our business is related to identity management, security of information, and personal information. So we see this being a positive step and really one that is in lockstep with the thinking of today's government to provide a more stringent method of vetting people for criminal his

Transport committee  I don't have any right here with any specific language that I could provide to you. Really, it's this concept of what is a security clearance--it's a very broad phrase. We would propose that for the criminal history portion of a security clearance, which I assume would be an inte

Transport committee  From our understanding, we're not involved in the vetting process or the approval process the TSA operates. The TSA has stated publicly as part of its program objectives that the information is not--

Transport committee  I don't think we're here to provide testimony or evidence in terms of what happens at the TSA. That's not the key area of expertise for us. If you have a criminal record, it's on file permanently in Canada as well as the United States. The FBI holds criminal history information.

Transport committee  I have some familiarity with it, and I've obviously reviewed the amendments to the bill.

Transport committee  I focus my studies more on the area in which we are experts, which is really security clearances. We don't do emergency planning, nor do we offer those services or any kind of assistance in that area.

Transport committee  As Mr. Conohan had mentioned, in Canada there's a reliance and a misconception when the security clearance is done. Of all security clearances done in Canada outside of PWGSC, with their top-secret types of clearances, your reliability status clearances, for the most part, at the

Transport committee  I didn't mean it that way, Mr. Chairman. The fingerprint system has proven to be extremely reliable in terms of comparison and is really the best way to determine whether the person in front of you has a criminal record or not. If they present false ID you will never get a crimi

Transport committee  I apologize, my French is not very good. The definitions are very similar. What's considered a hazardous material in the United States, things such as chemicals, fuel transportation, many of those things are similar to the definition of dangerous goods in Canada. So I would cons

Transport committee  Transport Canada has a program in place right now to facilitate the flow of trucks across the border, the FAST program. We don't have a lot of information about the FAST program since we're not involved in it. I'm not entirely sure if there's even a security-clearance portion in