Foreign Affairs committee  On the intelligence front, I'll just let you know that, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we have intelligence professionals who are working with partners. We generally break up our intelligence into three levels: strategic, operational, and tactical. On the tactical side, whene

Foreign Affairs committee  In fairness, I like to keep it simple as well. I leave it up to the technical experts when we get down to the precision of what we're dealing with. It's not necessarily obvious when an officer goes out to determine whether a good has a dual-use technology, but that officer is su

Foreign Affairs committee  There are challenges—and I think they were alluded to by my colleague from the RCMP—with respect to the conversion of intelligence to evidence. That does pose a particular problem when you're dealing with sensitive sources. You otherwise might have to find ways to utilize that an

Foreign Affairs committee  Our primary responsibility is to interdict or prevent the goods from leaving, but there are also secondary and tertiary issues, in either working with the RCMP or conducting our own criminal investigation to prevent the organization from going again. There's also a concern with t

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly our Five Eyes partners are critical partners, most notably the United States because of the close interaction and trade between our two countries. We exchange best practices regarding ways that we identify potential shipments. We also exchange intelligence with our part

Foreign Affairs committee  Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude, in 2015, about $480 billion worth of goods was exported from Canada. The CBSA receives approximately 800,000 electronic export declarations and approximately 44,000 paper declarations each year. However, not all exports are requ

Foreign Affairs committee  Right. I wouldn't say that additional resources would necessarily lead to more investigations. However, I would point to the fact that the 2016 audit of controlling exports at the border did find the staffing levels of coverage for export control were not sufficient to monitor or

Foreign Affairs committee  Right. I don't think I would differentiate between those large importers or small importers/exporters. All of the regulations and all of the requirements are available for everybody. Again, the Canada Border Services Agency applies the law equally. It doesn't take into consider

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a good question and it's an important question. There are a number of means by which importers and exporters can have access to information. The agency website has a number of things that help importers and exporters and guide them in terms of what the regulations are, and,

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly Global Affairs Canada has on its website a list of any of those goods and/or countries that are subject to special economic measures. As far as a list of individuals goes, I'm not familiar with any.

Foreign Affairs committee  I brought some figures in anticipation that that might in fact be the case.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. Essentially the Canada Border Services Agency is responsible for reviewing declarations that are made with respect to goods that are exported from the country to ensure that they're in compliance with the various pieces of legislation, most notably in terms of the Expo

Foreign Affairs committee  As I mentioned at the beginning, we have a dual role. One is about the facilitation of legitimate trade. Our export industry is significant and important to the prosperity of Canada. In addition to that, though, a number of countries would seek to acquire goods that could represe

Foreign Affairs committee  That's what we're providing.

Foreign Affairs committee  I can't comment on that particular beast, and whether or not I find one particularly better than the other.