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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee You're correct, of course, that it's very difficult to get good information due to the nature of smuggling and trafficking. It's one of those things that the harder you look for it, the more you tend to find. We do in fact have a certain level of overstaying within the country.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would say that the overall package is intended to deter. The detention is probably not the major part of it. The major aspect is the three years of temporary status, and then the restrictions on wider family sponsorship. I think it is true that detention in and of itself prob
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee It is particularly focused, I think, on the security aspects. Its major focus is on enabling us to ascertain the identity of people. One of the issues, of course, which I understand Canada has experienced, is that if you have a mass arrival, the crew, the people who are organiz
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. The situation with Australia is very different, of course, because they're much closer to their nearest neighbour. Indonesia is a couple of hundred kilometres away, so it's no distance at all. It's much more straightforward for people to get to Australia in small boats.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think all problems are real problems within their own countries.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee The global financial crisis means all problems are problems for governments at the moment, I think, but yes, I probably can't comment—
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee Less than in some other countries; possibly a greater proportion than in other countries. I don't know. Sorry, I have not done the comparison.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee No. It's part of the vote for immigration overall, which is between $200 million and $300 million, so it is a proportion of that, and it's not the biggest proportion of that vote, but I can't tell you.... I can find the information for you.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee We collect some biometric information and we have the capacity in our act to collect more, but we're still in the process of implementing that because we're getting a new computer system that will be able to deal better with biometrics than the current one. So our current act e
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee My understanding is that we have found it to be very useful, particularly in the determination of asylum claims. Subject to very strict controls that have been bilaterally agreed upon with our five country conference partners—Canada is one—we can do bilateral sharing of fingerpri
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee Not for biometrics, but we do have very strict entry and exit controls. It's the big benefit of being a country that has such specific borders. We've maintained entry and exit controls forever, as far as I'm aware, certainly for the last few decades, and our computerized matching
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee We do share considerable information with the Australians but not strictly. We do not collect biometrics at the border, and even if we did, I don't know if we would share it. That would have to be subject to a protocol that was agreed upon by the privacy commissioners in both cou
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee Unfortunately, Stephen has had to leave, and he could have spoken to this with more knowledge, I think. But my understanding is that the refugee status branch will prioritize some individuals. In particular, people who are being held in prison will be interviewed as a measure of
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman
Citizenship and Immigration committee Good afternoon.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Christine Hyndman