Health committee  With regard to the limitations—

Health committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and honourable members. My name is Caroline Xavier. I appear today on behalf of the Canada Border Services Agency, the CBSA, in my capacity as Vice-President, Operations Branch. I would like to thank the committee for the invitation to speak today. The o

Public Safety committee  We'll refer that question to IRCC, as they would be the best to confirm that. We can ask them.

Public Safety committee  Sure. Fundamentally, for anything related to GARs and PSRs, definitely IRCC is the expert. They're the ones more specifically to ask the question to, but what I can tell you is that with regard to those who are coming as part of this initiative, PSRs and GARs are having to pack u

Public Safety committee  No, I'm not the authority to tell you what those numbers are. IRCC would be the better authority to confirm those numbers.

Public Safety committee  We can pass that on to our IRCC colleagues, for sure.

Public Safety committee  As an official of the CBSA, we take security very seriously, as mentioned earlier, and this is not being compromised. I can tell you from an official's perspective and from the one who runs operations that I feel very comfortable, and my officers both overseas and here are doing

Public Safety committee  As Madam Semaan said, our officers have a series of tools at their disposal at the port of entry, especially when somebody is referred to the secondary inspection, when they have multiple tools at their disposal, including, as you've said, the cellphone and other open-sourced too

Public Safety committee  As you mentioned, many of the refugees we are dealing with are referrals from the UNHCR. We have a long relationship with the UNHCR, who have a great many of years of experience in the screening they do. Having said that, we do receive what they have, but we still do a thorough s

Public Safety committee  That's correct. We treat security too seriously to just take it lightly like that.

Public Safety committee  We observe the movement of passengers and goods at the border on a daily basis. We do not see an immediate difference as soon as the dollar goes down, but we observe a change over a longer term. It is too soon to see immediate repercussions.

Public Safety committee  I cannot answer you. I'm going to let Mr. Bolduc answer that question.

Public Safety committee  We work in partnership, as was mentioned previously, so we rely heavily on intelligence-led information to better advise us on where we want to risk-assess and put our resources. Intelligence information and risk assessment form a great foundation with regard to how we determine

Public Safety committee  I have not yet been, but I will be there by the weekend.

Public Safety committee  Again, I won't speak to the numbers, but in general all our officers are supported by translators. Some of our officers who have been stationed in situ have language skills, and we have the same capacity at the port of entry. We've ensured that as refugees arrive, they are being