Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we did not specifically compare the costs. We do point out in the report that for about 40% of their population, they expend about 6% of their budget. Clearly, being incarcerated is more expensive than being in the community.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would add that front-loading represented, potentially at least, a risk for the service providers, because essentially what they were being asked to do was to spend against their agreement at a rate that would not allow them to make it through the whole y

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, the key difference is that small shipments may not have been declared. So the agency had less authority to develop the necessary risk analysis to determine how involved it should get.

Public Safety committee  It's not that there is no control at all, but the officers must have reasonable suspicion before opening a package for a thorough analysis.

Public Safety committee  One of the issues is knowing whether the declarations are accurate. Screening is performed for mailouts. That said, it is somewhat different because people are not required to declare if the content is worth less than $2,000.

Public Safety committee  In the 2015 report on exports, two of our recommendations concerned the fact that there should be information on performance in some cases. More specifically, agency employees worked on maintaining the targets sent to them by other departments. One of the roles related to export

Public Safety committee  You are drawing a link between two things that are not directly related. The entry/exit system has to do with individuals, while our concerns over exports and the lack of resources—or the absence of resources in some cases—have to do with exports. The entry/exit system will not

Public Safety committee  It's not all packages. Let's be clear about that. We're talking about the ones that are non-reported. There is a series of exemptions under the exporting goods regulations for those kinds of packages. These are the ones where the authority, prior to Bill C-21, did not exist to op

Public Safety committee  Certainly. There were four things we were primarily concerned about. One was that it looked as if there was a risk that the electronic system they used for targeting was about to be switched off without a plan in place to replace it. Then we observed that even when items were tar

Public Safety committee  Yes. One of our observations was that there was a difference between the authorities to examine goods that were coming into the country versus those leaving the country. Specifically, agency officers can look at any package, any shipment when entering the country, but when they a

Public Safety committee  In our 2015 report, we discussed two points related to what you've raised. First, the computer systems were not very useful in targeting exports. That was certainly a problem. Afterwards, we also noted that a significant percentage of targets, even when they were identified usi

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. In this case what we were saying was indeed as Mr. Orr just said, that the circumstances in the international network can be quite variable and, indeed, the checklist that we refer and that is circulated provides insight into that by providing information.

Public Accounts committee  No, I'm saying that they were collecting information on checklists and we felt they were not then using that information to establish enough of an understanding of risk in the international network. In a sense, they had a tool. That was one aspect of it. However, they were not fu

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure I have anything to add. That was an accurate statement, but it is clearly an estimate based on a sample.

Public Accounts committee  The clearest example is in paragraph 3.86, where we talk about situations of staff looking up their own records. In that case, as we mention in paragraph 3.37, the scenarios we examined were ones where there had been previous code of conduct violation situations. Again, there was