Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the question goes back to having the right information about people coming in. You could argue that cases for and against have been extreme. For example, I mentioned the case of the marijuana plants. I think that's an extreme case. I think that doesn't pop up too often.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is this the question of a serious criminality?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In this case, my own opinion is no. They have a long list of history. As I mentioned, in the cases that have been presented, you have cases of assault, sexual assault, fraud, drug trafficking, weapons charges. We should really ask ourselves whether these are the people we want in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Respectfully, I would say the person is using false identification. If someone who has come here at an age, to use your example, of five years old, and has lived a majority of their life in Canada, I think they're relatively conscious about their decision to use fake ID. If you'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm still trying to find the connection between your quotation and the policy.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not going to comment on that specific case because I don't know it well. I'm going to turn it back to the comments that Walter was making. I think what the policy is trying to at least lead to is the integration of agencies and to push forward what sort of information we ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm willing to let it go.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you have any cases of what you would consider unintentional? I can depart from there.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With respect, I wouldn't know if that was unintentional. I'll give my own case of when I lived in the United States. I had to go through a similar process where I had to give my history, fill out all the forms. There's an onus on the person to actually make sure not only to doubl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Will do. My apologies. Sorry, translator. I also have concern that trials and lengthy sentences are avoided by pleading guilty to a charge of two years minus a day. This allows the foreign national to seek review of his deportation order. Multiple assaults, failure to comply wi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Chair, members of the committee, once again, thank you for your invitation. With me today are my colleagues, Rear-Admiral Don Loren of the U.S. Navy, and Professor Walter Perchal of York University. We're all part of the Centre of Excellence in Security, Resilience, and Intellige

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Concerning the comment about faulty information—I think I somewhat touched on this in my opening statement—we need to have some sort of mechanism, and it may be outside the bounds of this study, whereby we can verify our own information. In anything in life, it would

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you want me to take the first crack? Okay. No technology will be perfect. That's something the committee should understand, not only for this committee, but any study. For any technology, it's simply a function of time before it breaks down—any secure system. It could be a ma

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To clarify, are we talking Canadian and U.S. citizens only, or are we talking at large?