Public Safety committee  I completely understand your question.

Public Safety committee  If I may, I will reiterate that I will leave it to the good judgment of this committee to make recommendations. I can tell you—and I will leave you to determine whether it was the previous, previous government or the previous government—that CBSA has been an integral part of th

Public Safety committee  Again, there's a wide range—getting biographic information or getting a lead from a police agency or people working in an air environment. You talked about a flight attendant. You have people working at the check-in counter. All those people have an ability to see behaviour tha

Public Safety committee  It's a huge benefit, yes. It's not only being able to intervene at the moment, on the spot. It's also the value of the information for investigative purposes.

Public Safety committee  No. What is important to understand is that an exchange of information with the Americans takes place systematically at the border. The bill would give us the ability to collect information not just in the case of air travel, but also in the case of all other modes of transportat

Public Safety committee  We have access automatically to some information. In other instances, the police of jurisdiction will push that information to us.

Public Safety committee  We do.

Public Safety committee  But again, what Bill C-21 will give us is the ability to intervene with very limited information. In the case of an Amber Alert, right now, if we don't have specifics, it's very difficult for us to be able to pinpoint which flight the people are planning to leave on. With this, g

Public Safety committee  I will leave it to the good judgment of the committee to make recommendations. What I can—

Public Safety committee  The bill strengthens our authority in the area of exports, which wasn't entirely consistent with our authority in the area of imports. Basically, what it does is bring both of those authorities up to the same level. It gives us a clear mandate that applies upon entry and exit.

Public Safety committee  Yes, they are already in place. As I mentioned, we have been systematically sharing information with them since 2013. The fact that the bill adds Canadian citizens to the categories of individuals subject to the exchange of information does not change anything. No changes will ne

Public Safety committee  The exchange and collection of information will take place automatically via a computer platform. Our officers will not have to do anything in order to collect or exchange the information.

Public Safety committee  I'm going to ask my colleague Mr. Lawrence to answer that.

Public Safety committee  It serves what I call a law enforcement objective to be able to intervene when there's an Amber Alert or to prevent people from leaving the country for terrorism reasons. The bill also gives us the ability to share information for program integrity reasons. Programs that have a r

Public Safety committee  Yes, exactly.