Citizenship and Immigration committee  Compliance is a difficult subject, whether it be in the workplace or in the government. Review of compliance is imperative if you have a set of instructions and directives to comply with. No one would ever argue that compliance is not a prerequisite for an effectively operating f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Remember, intent is a significant piece of the types of things we're discussing here today. The way you determine intent is generally through intelligence, whether it be associations, previous history, relationships, or activities. There has to be the opportunity to determine int

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir. The same thing holds with traffic violations. Ignorance of the law is no defence. That doesn't mean we can't be compassionate and reasonable and use judgment when we determine intent, but ignorance is not a defence.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. As a great friend of Canada, I am greatly pleased to be here again. As before, it is at my colleague's request that I appear before you. All comments made by me today are my own and are not reflective of any of the orga

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But in the same vein, if you really want to circumvent the system, then I'm going to ask for ten prints, I'm going to take a retinal scan as well, and then hopefully, as perfected, I'm going to do cheekbone measurement as well. You're really going to have to go to some effort to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, that gets back to the previous question: would it be easy? I don't think so. Would it be infallible? Of course...it could be fallible. It's not infallible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, I am going to answer that question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely not. There are certain categories, such as the military, for which DNA is collected, but—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not an expert in this. I'm going to give you an opinion, a personal opinion. I would venture to say that it's probably not as easy as motion pictures might make it out to be, but I would venture to say that it perhaps is possible. I'd venture to say that in 2012 it's probably

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll do my best. When I was growing up, my father refused to buy a colour TV until they perfected it. It's not about the technology. Who cares about the technology? Moore's law tells us that the technology is going to change in two years anyway. It's about what we're trying to d

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe so.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's an absolutely great question. It's a question that I think gets to the very heart of how our two nations need to address a continental, if not a regional—two thirds of the continent—problem or challenge. Yes, we have made tremendous progress over the years—certainly since

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —in my country, we were much better prepared to do foreign intelligence than we were when the threat came to our own shores.