Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the U.S. version it is possible to get a third party to enter your information, so that's both something that could help people, but also a danger to be concerned about if that is going to be happening. Who gets to register? Is it only individuals who are travelling or can you

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, the extent of the information sharing with the U.S. is something that needs to be clarified. Also, the U.S. does not have a privacy commissioner comparable to ours and they are figuring out how those discussions are going to take place. If we have recommendations coming fr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are asking me specifically?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm happy to start. That's an interesting figure, but I'd like to unpack it a bit. I can't remember what year Australia had the Olympics, but that would also have been conducive to a rise in tourism. There are other things that also impact on increases. It's good that their tra

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It could have a huge impact. It may have an impact depending on how you answer it. The question is framed on the ESTA on whether you might pose a threat. If you say no, but you have a history of depression, that may be used in terms of inadmissibility in the future because you se

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There may be some cost savings brought about by more interoperability around those kinds of things, but I think we have to be careful about what is also lost by those forms of deeper integration. We have to be very clear that it's not just about cost; it's not the only bottom lin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I would agree absolutely, which is why we need to discuss them and talk about the ramifications of the kind of information being gathered and how it's being used. That's the only way we will know how these security measures are impacting us in terms of security. If we leave

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I apologize, but I'm going to answer in English because my French is very rusty. The kind of criteria that I think may move towards greater harmonization are things related to the questions they are asking on their forms, which are slightly different from the quest

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I'm all for sharing. Sharing is a great principle. We're taught it from early days when we're children in kindergarten. As I've said before, sharing is good, but I think we need to know how we're going to share that information, who is going to have access to it and for wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I come back to the two points that it depends on what information is being gathered and how it's being used. If the information that is to be gathered is exactly the same that's being gathered already, but being brought together through an electronic system, that seems to be st

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I think so. I'm just trying to say that we shouldn't blur the two issues. The kinds of terrorism that have been identified in the previous comments are not the kinds of things we're dealing with in an ETA. That's off the table as far as this is concerned—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that may well be the case, but we also need to be very clear that we are gathering relevant kinds of information and we're handling that information appropriately. Gordon began by saying it's a balance between liberty and security. We often hear that we have to sacrifice qu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have to look at these things carefully. Again, going back to Ms. Stoddart's comments, it shouldn't just come down to rules and legislation. We should have a more fulsome discussion of the kinds of information we're looking for.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. There's information that we already collect around name, all the stuff that's included in both the advance passenger information and passenger name record. I think that information is appropriate: the date of birth, citizenship, nationality, passport number, and other identi