Public Safety committee  No. There was a decision made to make sure that the decisions are not accessible in a decision registry or through any other process, obviously, except for the applicant or whoever the applicant assigns to work with him or her. This is going to be pretty confidential if the perso

Public Safety committee  Obviously, this is our intention. Experience says that sometimes people will still seek support, whether for a simple part of the application or other reasons, but that will be their decision. We will have, as I mentioned, staff available by phone and online to provide them with

Public Safety committee  When we speak about the fees, we're speaking about federal government fees, because we can't really waive other fees. I just want to be clear about that aspect.

Public Safety committee  From our perspective, we're going to have a guide online and available on paper to help them, but there will be obviously some documents that they'll have to provide in order for the board to do the inquiries and verify the information. It doesn't totally remove the burden of pro

Public Safety committee  I would like to add that in the case of pardons and criminal record suspensions, the situation is the same today. We can't demand that other countries remove this information from their systems. Applicants who have gone through customs in the past and whose passage was mentioned

Public Safety committee  Sure, thanks for the question. The Parole Board will have most of the information online. Nevertheless, we're going to have a guide that can be printed and sent to the communities where we believe they will be needing it. We have a 1-800 number as well. A lot of the applicants

Public Safety committee  As this bill is allowing for posthumous applications, obviously yes. General information will be provided to everybody. Anybody who calls will be able to obtain the information or download it. If there's a question that is specific about an application, obviously we need to mak

Public Safety committee  At this point, we haven't gone into these detail for this bill—

Public Safety committee  —but I can reflect what we do with the record suspensions and pardons. We have a consent form available to communicate information to a third party—family or someone else. The applicant will sign to allow them to have this information. As well, it could be an MP, or anybody the