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Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can only respond to that by saying I would take that assessment at face value, because I don't have a lot of familiarity with Interpol. Maybe it would be helpful if I defined what CCRTIS does. It's essentially a national police service, so it very much puts me in the role of

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a very interesting and topical conversation and it's something I dealt with a lot certainly in my previous role as the director general of the Canadian Police Information Centre, because we do have an established exchange with—I'll use the United States as the main example.

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to get you that answer. My sense is that it is done on a case-by-case basis and on the merits of the investigational question. In other words, there's no system in place that automatically sends information of that nature back and forth.

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are no plans to do that at this point. The conversations occurring between those countries now are very much around the standards of the information, to ensure that similar standards are being used when building the technical solutions. It provides for the opportunity to—

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not aware of any plans to do that at this time.

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say you've identified the significant challenge with respect to the sharing of information, be it biometric or otherwise. Agreements are essential, and they have to be put in place with Canadian values in mind with regard to privacy and who gets to access the information.

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you have it pretty well covered.

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly. There are two ways to access the information we keep in the identification data bank at CMP PPU 030, which is described in Info Source. That information is verified through the use of biometrics. However, there is a criminal-name index capability through the CPIC syste

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. As far as standards go, the biometric standard is consistent between the countries that were named earlier. In fact, we have a body called the International Information Consortium, which consists of the U.K., the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

April 30th, 2012Committee meeting

C/Supt Chuck Walker