Public Safety committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for your question. You're referring to project CLEMENZA. More specifically, it's important to be careful with conclusions that are drawn without having all the facts concerning the decisions that were made by the Crown. In some circumstances,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. In fact, it's not that they're not committing an offence; it's that we cannot take any actions with respect to these individuals until the asylum claimant process is completed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. What I'm saying is that my interpretation of IRPA is that they are committing an offence under the Customs Act. but under section 133 of IRPA, we cannot take any actions with respect to that offence until the full asylum process is completed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Is that for this year or last year?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have the number for last year, which in Manitoba was 1,018 and in British Columbia was 718. Unfortunately, I don't have the numbers with me for this year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today about the RCMP's efforts related to irregular migration at our shared border with the United States. I’m the Deputy Commissioner responsible for Federal Policing

Public Safety committee  From an agency perspective, that is a welcome change, because when it comes to our national security mandate, very rarely do we exercise it in isolation. It's always working with our partners, those who are sitting at the table: CBSA, and so on. As a review is ordered on some of

Public Safety committee  I think that our current relationship with FINTRAC and the existing legislation help us do our work. That actually gives us some flexibility. The threat can increase and be expressed in a certain way over a period of time, and then the method can change. We can always share infor

Public Safety committee  That is one example of many. When it's time to investigate Canadians who have gone abroad, the work begins abroad. We have relationships with different police forces, including the police force of Five Eyes or of other countries. We start to compile evidence. Once the individual

Public Safety committee  A lot of those authorities exist outside the bill, and we already possess them in order to intervene and disrupt any type of emerging threat.

Public Safety committee  That specific module is really a law-enforcement push. We've seen the increase in activities, and we would say that an aspect of the threat that we have is that we had taken our eyes off the ball, I guess, for a number of years. Right now there's a push to really delve into it. W

Public Safety committee  Maybe I can add something from a law enforcement perspective. This bill really touches more on changes to the Criminal Code and some of the provisions that exist there to assist us in making sure we keep Canadians safe. It does not address the technological challenges that we h

Public Safety committee  In practical terms, what we see on the ground with respect to terrorist financing is actually related to all our investigations. We are always looking to discover whether there is a terrorism financing component. However, we are always faced with the challenge of the use of fund

Public Safety committee  From our perspective, more time would be better, because the more time we have, the more ready we'll be. That being said, we are working towards being in a position to be able to deliver our services the best way we can whenever this new act comes before us. As you've seen, part

Public Safety committee  I cannot comment. I would have to go back to see if there's been a study done around the impaired driving piece, because it's not in my field of expertise. I'm on the federal side of the business, but I could go back and come back with an answer on that one.