Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, yes, indeed. There was a whole list. If you want to talk to the folks in the US-VISIT program, they can tell you how many thousands and hundreds of thousands are refused access or refused work. Once the system is integrated like this, it works very well and it's effective. My

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would not make recommendations as such to CIC. I think they're definitely on the right track. They've been at it for a number of years. They've done a good job, in my view, of integrating the pieces they need. I can't comment on the policies or the standard operating procedur

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My opinion and my feelings are that it will be.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a number of aspects to the effectiveness of biometrics. There's the policy side of things. There is the technology side of things. There are the standard operating procedures that one might use to control the flow of people and provide the interdiction and get the intel

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I'm afraid not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I certainly believe the technology has improved to the point where it can handle large volumes. The accuracy keeps improving. The technology is just at that stage now where it's ready for use, and other countries have realized that. I think we are getting into that direction. I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that. It's not appropriate for me to comment. We're focusing on the technology aspects that could be brought to bear on this in the future or in the near future; we're not looking at the past performance issues.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. My name is Pierre Meunier, and I am the portfolio manager for surveillance, intelligence and interdiction at the Defence Research and Development Canada Centre for Security Science. This portfolio includes leading a community of practice on biometrics for national se