Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. Again, your support staff can do more searches on this, but the Indians have very aggressive penalties in place. They have engaged on the issue for a whole series of the different parts of the human smuggling process.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I could add a bit more to that, again, the roots are in poverty—extreme poverty. In many cases, what you have is an indentured service of one sort of another. You have very poor parents, or in the case of children who have lost their parents, a family member essentially sellin

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The Indians are party, as we are, to a whole series of international obligations, including for human smuggling, which is about the smuggling of people across borders. The Indians are certainly very much involved in trying to prevent it, for a whole series of reasons, including j

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Perhaps I can clarify that a bit. The Canadian assistance that goes to India is relatively constrained. It focuses largely on big-picture issues, working through the multilateral organizations to help India and perhaps states, and so forth, to build capacity to be able to deal wi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Perhaps there is, but to give you a bit of a context here, let me say that the protocol on trafficking in persons defines four tiers of countries in terms of how they are addressing the problem. From one to four, in descending order of how much effort they're putting in, Canada i

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  With regard to the definition of organized crime, the UN treaty on organized crime defines organized crime as anything involving three or more people. In this particular case, there's a lot of what we might consider to be organized crime on a large scale, but it's hard to differe

Information & Ethics committee  At Global Affairs—and I'm checking with both of my colleagues here—there has not been.

Information & Ethics committee  Drawing on what's already been said, I don't want to repeat it, but certainly I think on our side we've done a lot to try to increase the robustness of what we're trying to do. We negotiated a specific agreement with CSIS. We've tried to communicate with our posts abroad to make

Information & Ethics committee  I know you've had previous discussions about this with relevant parts of our organization. Certainly, from my department's perspective, it's simply not an issue. We don't deal with bulk data, and we certainly don't share it. We don't share any information under SCISA outside of t

Information & Ethics committee  To receive the information, that's right. We're not a collector ourselves. That would be CSIS or others. Of course, what we're talking about here is not collection per se, but in the case of consular operations, they have a database based on their engagement with Canadians who re

Information & Ethics committee  Just to be absolutely clear, while my title includes “intelligence”, this is really as a result of the requirement to make sure that my group is connecting with the intelligence agencies. We are not an intelligence agency ourselves. The term is perhaps a bit open to a misundersta

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Thank you for the question. With all due respect, I don't want to avoid your question. I want to respond as clearly as possible. I think we were misunderstood earlier. I have someone with me who is really an expert and who handles this type of communication every day. She

Information & Ethics committee  On our side, SCISA is not a collection authority. I'm just looking to my colleagues, Victoria or perhaps Patrick, on the privacy side, because it's a very specialized question.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have a quick response, Mr. Chair.

Information & Ethics committee  On the Global Affairs Canada side, under SCISA we only share information very, very carefully, as I pointed out, with Canadian government entities. It's not the role of our ministry to share information of a personal nature with other governments, so it doesn't apply to our minis