Public Safety committee  That's right, yes.

Public Safety committee  We reference page 2 of the passport, and it's the basic biographic information. That is an international civil aviation standard, the machine-readable zone. You'll see it at the bottom of every passport. That field for gender has two values: it has M and it has F. Those are the o

Public Safety committee  As an example, the “circumstances” would be that upon entry to the United States, that information would come back to CBSA, constituting an exit record from Canada.

Public Safety committee  Practically speaking, this would be the section under which air carriers would submit outbound flight manifests to the CBSA, constituting an exit record in the air mode.

Public Safety committee  Proposed paragraph 93(1)(b) is the limit to which exit information would be contained, so it's the basic biographic data found on page 2 of the passport, the type of travel document or passport that was used.

Public Safety committee  Under the act, “person” also refers to corporations and companies, so in this instance it could be an air carrier; it could be a Greyhound bus operator; it could be the driver. Heading into the United States, that person or the people on that bus would be processed; they'd be adm

Public Safety committee  It means that if you are departing Canada on a commercial aircraft and your flight leaves Vancouver, touches down in Montreal, and then goes to Paris, your port of departure is Montreal, not Vancouver: even though you may have boarded the aircraft in Vancouver, you left Canada ou

Public Safety committee  There is no sharing of this information with provinces.

Public Safety committee  The information is submitted to CBSA upon entry to the U.S. In those cases where individuals are refused entry, they are sent back to a meeting with a border services officer at a land border, for instance. We process their return.

Public Safety committee  The information itself would not trigger an automatic cessation of any benefits. It would open an investigation—by a human—to verify continued eligibility for those types of programs. The CBSA has a recourse program as well as an online complaint mechanism. When people have a com

Public Safety committee  The information sharing for social benefit program integrity is criteria-based. Information with respect to individuals who meet specific criteria would be shared systematically with Employment and Social Development or the Canada Revenue Agency. If those individuals are collecti

Public Safety committee  Yes. The disclosure would be based on the regulatory or the statutory program requirements for—

Public Safety committee  No, we would push that information to them.

Public Safety committee  It's based on the requirements outlined in the different social benefit programs.

Public Safety committee  We wouldn't. That's why it's a proactive disclosure to Employment and Social Development. Any matching to an EI role, for instance, would initiate an investigation. If there is no match, that information would be immediately deleted.