Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Minister—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Generally speaking, we do everything we can in order to effect the removals as quickly as possible. That is our obligation under the law. There is a series of factors that would impede this, including our ability to obtain travel documents, to receive confi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we will provide a document outlining our approach to this.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I understand the question that's being asked. I think in order to answer that question properly, we need to go back to the way the system of removals works. We have, at any given time, a removal inventory of about 15,000 people. Our priority is always to deal with nati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Minister. That's absolutely right. Generally speaking, Mr. Chair, we are dealing with situations on site, immediately as they are presented. They do not present themselves on a regular basis. Overall, in our estimation, even less than 1% of cases deal with serious cri

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I understand the question. You want to know, if they do not present at the border...?

Public Safety committee  Did you want to...?

Public Safety committee  Mike, did you want to speak from your perspective?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I understand the question. You want to know, if they do not present at the border...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Did you want to...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mike, did you want to speak from your perspective?

Public Safety committee  On this particular point, Mr. Chair, I haven't done the analysis to compare it with prior years, but I can tell you that, as my colleague from the RCMP pointed out, the numbers are negligible when it comes to criminality overall, at this point.

Public Safety committee  Depending on the scenario, the person would either be handed over to the local police jurisdiction for proceedings to take place or, depending on the nature of the criminality, the case could be viewed by the CBSA as an admissibility question, which would first be cleared up befo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On this particular point, Mr. Chair, I haven't done the analysis to compare it with prior years, but I can tell you that, as my colleague from the RCMP pointed out, the numbers are negligible when it comes to criminality overall, at this point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Depending on the scenario, the person would either be handed over to the local police jurisdiction for proceedings to take place or, depending on the nature of the criminality, the case could be viewed by the CBSA as an admissibility question, which would first be cleared up befo