Public Safety committee  Okay. We have approximately 17,000 cases in our working inventory. We're in the process of taking action to remove those. We have cases where we have warrants for their arrest for removal; in that category, we have approximately 44,000 individuals.

Public Safety committee  These individuals have a warrant for their arrest. By and large, the majority of them—in the range of 80% of those cases—are failed refugee claimants without any criminality or security concerns. They have absconded—they have not shown up for an immigration process or they have n

Public Safety committee  There is the possibility that up to perhaps 20% of those individuals for who we have warrants for arrest for removal have left the country. We have undertaken projects to address the warrant inventory in the past. Based on those projects, we've been able to determine that up to a

Public Safety committee  The agency is of course working to find those individuals to remove them. The fact that we have a warrant for their arrest also means that those warrants are showing up in the Canadian Police Information Centre. As law enforcement officers are conducting their work across the cou

Public Safety committee  Good afternoon. Thank you to the committee for the invitation to be here today. The members of the committee realize that the agency's mandate is large and complex. Our Border Services officers are peace officers who are bound to enforce any laws respecting customs and immigrat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For each detention centre.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will certainly do what we can within the limitations of our existing information systems.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we will provide the information that our systems will allow us to generate, and we should be able to give you a breakdown that gives you a sense of detention release decisions across the various timelines.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have to do that, Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. The Auditor General's report made a number of recommendations, and action plans have been developed for all those recommendations. The agency agreed with all the recommendations the Auditor General made, and measures have been taken to address the con

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of coherence, the Auditor General is making some observations about the national consistency of the detention program. We've taken measures to address national consistency through updates to our policy manuals, to our procedures, but I also have to acknowledge that there

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. My colleague was referring to the existing detention review cycle that falls under the mandate of the Immigration and Refugee Board. So detention decisions are made at 48 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and every 30 days thereafter. If you're looking for statistics on detention de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say it's frequently. It's systematic, in the sense that this is their mandate, and we cooperate with them to allow them to access detention centres as they wish.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they're not paid to do that. They don't get payment by the CBSA to do that work.