Public Accounts committee  That's correct.

Public Accounts committee  When somebody is charged or entered into the CPIC system, the issue is that we will not necessarily know what that person's status is. If we have a question, we could refer the case to IRCC and perhaps identify the person, but....

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, again on the information sharing, can we do it better? Absolutely. I think it's important to understand, too, with investigations at what point somebody is charged. You have to understand the way the processes work within those cases. Somebody has had a criminal reco

Public Accounts committee  I can provide a response for you there. In regards to the different legislation, perhaps the word “limitation” is not the best. It should be the word “guide”. They guide the agencies in how we .as agencies are compelled to protect the information we have within our inventories,

Public Accounts committee  What I will say about the Privacy Act is that there are provisions in there to share information when there is a case that's going affect national security.

Public Accounts committee  Within the context of the files that were examined here—

Public Accounts committee  —I'm not aware that happened.

Public Accounts committee  I wouldn't be at liberty to speak to all files in regard to that.

Public Accounts committee  In an organized crime file, it likely does happen. For those complex investigations where you have a number of different people who are being investigated, if you share in one forum you're going to compromise investigations in another. The job of any enforcement agency is to ens

Public Accounts committee  In regard to the information sharing, there are a number of different considerations that must be taken into place. If we look at the MOU that exists between the RCMP and IRCC that was completed in 2012, there are provisions in there to share information. However, within that MOU