Public Safety committee  For the detention program?

Public Safety committee  I can tell you that on a daily basis it costs us approximately $200 to $250 a day to house our immigration detainees. We house them in three immigration holding centres that are administered by the CBSA, and we also rely on the provinces to house our high-risk population or to ho

Public Safety committee  Do you want to answer that, Susan?

Public Safety committee  We haven't undertaken a similar pilot project to date at CBSA, but I can tell you that our officials have initiated a dialogue with our CSC colleagues in order to learn from their experience as we consider EM in our own context.

Public Safety committee  I'll start off and then invite my colleague to add to this. As I mentioned, there are three reasons for detention under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: the individual represents a danger to the country; the individual represents a flight risk, so they won't show up

Public Safety committee  We found in our practice that it has been useful in the cases relating to national security. In those cases—there are five—the Immigration and Refugee Board has imposed the use of electronic monitoring. We have used electronic monitoring in the small number of other cases involvi

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  That's the kind of analysis that we haven't undertaken on a rigorous, comprehensive basis. Our use of the technology to date doesn't indicate that this would be a cost-effective approach.

Public Safety committee  What I'm saying is that our current practices are not to use them on that population.

Public Safety committee  You know, as I said in my remarks, the agency is open to the consideration of a broader application of EM in the future, but I'd be speculating. We would need to undertake a thorough cost-benefit analysis and appropriate feasibility studies before we could make that determination

Public Safety committee  Of our detention program?

Public Safety committee  That's right. The agency is responsible for enforcing the removal of persons who are deemed to be inadmissible to Canada by the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I can tell you that during the past five years the agency has removed quite a number of individuals. In the last two years, the agency has removed over 15,000 individuals. Going back to five years, the number of removals has ranged over 12,000, so the range for each year is

Public Safety committee  Yes. We have what we refer to as a warrant inventory for removals and a working inventory of individuals who have exhausted all of the recourse mechanisms they have under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. In our working inventory today, we have approximately 17,000 case