Information & Ethics committee  I do not have those figures with me, but I will be happy to provide them to you as soon as I get back to my office.

Information & Ethics committee  The agency has used the resources it has. We have deployed resources from other regions. They have come to help mostly at our crossing at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, where we receive most of the people. People from other regions are providing us with assistance even today. Of cour

Information & Ethics committee  I think the number you may be referring to—because I saw the same thing in the media—is information coming from the United States. Unfortunately, in Canada, the CBSA doesn't make any distinctions between a secondary examination that is limited to questions to a traveller, to lu

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. Although I do not have the statistics with me, I can tell you that the great majority of those who arrived—and are still arriving, unfortunately—had a piece of identification or a document. When people cross between two points of entry, as we have bee

Information & Ethics committee  At the moment, we exchange information with our American colleagues on foreign nationals, permanent residents and American citizens. When a permanent resident of Canada enters the United States, it means that they are leaving Canada. When that person comes back to the land border

Information & Ethics committee  Not if they are travelling by air, no.

Information & Ethics committee  At the land border, yes, we gather that information for the three groups. However, on entry, we gather information on everyone arriving in Canada, whatever their nationality. What the bill will make it possible for us to do is to gather information on Canadians at all land borde

Information & Ethics committee  I am not aware of that.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Not at ports of entry.

Information & Ethics committee  No, not by our officers at the port of entry. If we find an infraction and we start a seizure, yes, the personal device could be seized and could be sent to our criminal investigator, who will decide what to do with it. From the border services officer perspective, though, we d

Information & Ethics committee  Today, it's not part of our regular questionnaire. Depending on the outcome of the cannabis legislation.... Right now, the way that it's drafted, cannabis import or export remains prohibited in Canada.

Information & Ethics committee  Without knowing all the ins and outs of how our U.S. colleagues at the border operate, they do their inspection in a very similar fashion to how we do ours, in a progressive fashion. My advice to anybody who crosses an international border is to be truthful. If you are asked, you

Information & Ethics committee  With certain visas issued by our colleagues at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the foreign visa officer takes a biometric measurement, which is to say fingerprints, so that it is possible to confirm that a person arriving at a Canadian point of entry is really the p

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. That is the case for people from a certain number of countries. I do not remember all the countries on the list.