Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've mentioned the automated decision making through the eTA initiative, and that initiative will be in place in August. The technology has been developed for the August rollout, and similar technologies would be applied as automation is expanded through these broader provisions

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Through our automated approach, the plan is to look at automating the routine tasks. In the first instance, things like completeness checks will be automated, triaging to determine who the low-risk and the high-risk travellers are. The straightforward cases would be triaged throu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Express entry is a system that was put in place on January 1 of this year. It's been in place since that time, and the response, really, has been overwhelmingly positive. As with any new system, there have been small technical glitches, if you will, but I think those have been ad

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly through the implementation of programs like eTA and express entry, we have consulted our counterparts around the globe who have implemented very similar systems. For eTA, for example, the U.S. has a very similar system, as I've mentioned, so there have been consultation

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not really understanding the question. On eTA is there recourse for...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. The tourism sector certainly has been consulted on the electronic travel authorization, which is a system that is fully automated. It involves electronic applications and electronic decision making, and the result is an authorization that is transmitt

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, certainly. Thank you for the question. There were investments referenced in the budget for eTA expansion. Again, that is applying eTA to low-risk populations. This legislation is in support of such an approach. There is already legislation in place for eTA itself, but this

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak today specifically about part 3, division 15 of the bill, related to legislative amendments that CIC is proposing to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, or IRPA, concerning automated processing and decision making. Mr. Chair, these p