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Foreign Affairs committee  I couldn't speculate, but I certainly would think that decision called for a very senior level of decision-makers in order to issue those permits. I would posit that those individuals are current members of government.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  In most instances TRPs are issued for very short periods of time for very bona fide reasons to enter the country. An example might be an entry to attend a funeral in Canada. Many of these are issued at the border to Americans who have minor criminality convictions, such as drivin

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not familiar with those cases.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  That can come from a number of sources. Typically, it comes through research into open source information about individuals: criminal history, organized criminal history....

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  It is updated as often as it needs to be updated in order to be accurate and available to officers to make decisions in real time.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, it is, but if they had questions about the nature of the file in order to make an admissibility decision at the border, they also have access to our officers, who are specialists in security screening. We may place a lookout in the system if we know the individual and we hav

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  No. We have a number of officers who are working in various countries and who are quite aware of some of the issues that might arise. We certainly come into contact with those individuals through—

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  We do have certain information-sharing agreements with certain partners, certainly with the United States. We also have access to high-risk traveller information. We have full access to U.S. criminal indexes at our front line. With regard to overseas, perhaps my colleague from I

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  There are a number of tools that officers would use. If that individual had already been through a visa screening process overseas, that full visa file would be available to the officer at the port of entry for consultation, if needed, for an understanding of the decision-making.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, I think Justice publishes in its consolidated statues a list of all goods and persons scheduled under SEMA.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, certainly. All admissibilities at port of entry need to be referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board for consideration in front of the immigration division. Consideration of that file can also be judicially reviewed by the Federal Court. Decisions made, taken in the visa

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. The foundation of our security screening process is that we have a common resource library in order to inform decision-making on admissibility.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think I'm able to describe or give you an example of how that might be applied, but I'll tell you how it's utilized in practice. IRPA's admissibility framework is a fully principles-based framework. It doesn't look to designate specific atrocities, or specific regimes. I

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper

Foreign Affairs committee  This is precisely the legislation we have in place. It is meant to be blind to the event. It is supposed to recognize all aspects of this type of activity.

October 24th, 2016Committee meeting

Lesley Soper