Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Yes. The former Canadian representative on the executive committee was Deputy Commissioner Todd Shean, who has just recently retired. He spent a number of years in federal policing, so he understands and was responsible for INTERPOL while he was at headquarters before taking his

Public Safety committee  On average, INTERPOL will open around 4,000 files a year. That's both requests into Canada and requests from Canada going out. There are around 4,000, not all red notices, just requests for information.

Public Safety committee  That's actually a Department of Justice office called the international assistance group that is responsible for all requests leaving Canada and coming into Canada for extradition. They are experts in the issues of the Extradition Act. They are responsible for overseeing the extr

Public Safety committee  I'm unfamiliar with how Russia may or may not have operated around this INTERPOL election. I can simply say that there are a 194 countries represented on INTERPOL, each having a vote. How they vote is certainly held within their own conscience. I don't know if they were influence

Public Safety committee  I'm not going to classify Russia as anything. I don't believe it's relevant to this conversation, sir. I'm not sure how that's relevant to the INTERPOL conversation.

Public Safety committee  I won't speak to Mr. Browder's case specifically. I'm not familiar enough with it to be able to do that. However, I appreciate your concern about Russia being on the executive committee or being perhaps a member of INTERPOL at all. I will simply add that Russia is but one of nin

Public Safety committee  I will say that, within the construct of INTERPOL itself, there are mechanisms for people to apply if they feel they're on a red notice, for instance, and they ought not to be. There's an office called the Commission for the Control of Files that is an independent body from INTER

Public Safety committee  I will simply say, sir, that I'm not in a position, obviously, to speak to that particular case. As I said earlier, there will be different levels of engagement. Will there be malfeasance from time to time? Yes. I believe the INTERPOL constitution and the rules that govern the b

Public Safety committee  You can actually click a box when you're doing a query. You click an INTERPOL box and you will receive information. If there's a hit on the INTERPOL system, you will receive it. Red notices—

Public Safety committee  Right.

Public Safety committee  No, sir, you raise a good point. If a red notice is issued in Lyon and the person is believed to be in Canada, it'll come to the NCB—the national central bureau—for vetting, processing and examination. However, if a person travelling from another country who's on a red notice c

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Okay. I'll do my best to answer that question, sir. I am not familiar with all the machinations of the electoral process.

Public Safety committee  Okay, I will answer quickly then. Essentially, police officers, generally senior executives, can self-identify and put their name in the hat, as it were, to run for a given position. Yes, there's a lot of seeking of support and a lot of back and forth with like-minded countries