Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. You have certainly identified some suspicious activities, as you say. We ask people to protect themselves as best they can by working with a credit bureau so that transactions are monitored as closely as possible. They should look at their bank and c

Public Safety committee  Our website, our call centres and the Service Canada centres tell Canadians who they may give their social insurance numbers to. When we issue social insurance numbers, we actually tell people who they should and should not give it to. A certain number of organizations are author

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. These glasses just—

Public Safety committee  Thank you. To answer your first question on new measures, every situation like this gives us the opportunity to review our security and privacy protection measures. All of our colleagues and myself certainly focus on that when there are incidents of this kind. The colleagues who

Public Safety committee  When fraud has been proven, we look at the type of fraud and discuss the matter with the person involved. Often people decide not to change their social insurance numbers. They register, or have someone register them, at a credit checking agency. By so doing, they will be better

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. Let me make two points about that. First, since this leak was made public, we have received between 1,400 and 1,500 requests directly from members of the public. They have called us to find out how to better protect their personal data and we have given them a lot of

Public Safety committee  I briefly mentioned that in my presentation and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about it at greater length. First, an information leak does not necessarily mean that fraud or identity theft has occurred. Second, we do not automatically change social insurance n

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My name is Elise Boisjoly, and I am the assistant deputy minister of the integrity services branch at Employment and Social Development Canada. I am joined by Anik Dupont, who is responsible for the social insurance number program. Thank you for

Public Accounts committee  Yes. We started last year with the on-site inspections, which were announced, so we talk to the employers. We make an appointment within the next few days, and then we go on site visits to look at the working conditions and the wages. In the case of the unannounced, as my colle

Public Accounts committee  When there's serious abuse, absolutely, an employer cannot hire another temporary foreign worker. Quite often, we will refer it to an enforcement agency, and there could be criminal charges laid against that employer. From there, we would ensure that this employer is banned from

Public Accounts committee  As my colleague pointed out, there are various degrees in terms of non-compliance. When there's non-compliance, let's say, around wages, we strongly encourage the employer to correct it and make sure that the temporary foreign workers are paid the amount of money they should be p

Public Safety committee  I think that's an excellent question. It's more of a border issue, which would be a little bit more difficult for me to answer, not having that particular mandate. Obviously, for us, working closely with the Akwesasne community is very important because they have certain differen

Public Safety committee  I will say thank you very much for pointing out that flag to us, and obviously we'll do whatever we can from our perspective to look into this issue.

Public Safety committee  Having a good platform between the two departments is paramount in ensuring the protection of information. We already have systems that exchange information, so we have some history in building these technologies and exchanging information. As we are developing our plans to build