Transport committee  You would have to ask people from the industry for precise numbers and percentages. All we've been told is that 80% of flights between Europe and Canada in both directions do overfly the U.S., and we know that for all Latin American and Caribbean--

Transport committee  Of course.

Transport committee  We are a Canadian organization. Secure Flight has been put in place in the United States solely for the United States, for the moment. We therefore did not intervene in the United States. The answer is no.

Transport committee  The American Civil Liberties Union is currently challenging Secure Flight in the United States within its own borders.

Transport committee  The airlines currently have the list. They're the ones doing the surveillance.

Transport committee  Yes, the Canadian airlines—Air Canada, for example. That's why they have not yet had to send the information to the United States, since they have the list. With Secure Flight, they won't have the list any more. They'll have to send passenger information to the Department of Home

Transport committee  We haven't met with the U.S. government. However, we have partners in the civil liberties field with whom we constantly speak. There is considerable objection in Europe, even in the European Parliament. There is a lot of concern. Earlier, in the same connection, I said that, if

Transport committee  I believe the Privacy Commissioner has already answered that. Right now the retaining period is seven days. Within minutes, once the information is in TSA, it can be shared with a whole spectrum of agencies. By the time the TSA raises it, the FBI and 16 other agencies have this i

Transport committee  It depends. If you're the real person, it's 99 years. If it's a false positive, it's seven years. For a regular passenger who is cleared, it's seven days. But even seven days, in the computer age, is a long time. Before TSA erases your file, it can be copied by the 16 other agenc

Transport committee  Approximately 80% of flights between Canada and Europe fly over the United States. Most flights in Montreal have to circle the airport and go over U.S. territory. So all these flights would have to share information with the U.S. Somebody from Britain or France or Geneva would ha

Transport committee  These numbers were confirmed to us by the airline industry.

Transport committee  People from all parts of the world coming to Canada have to fly over the U.S. Latin America is an example. We know that the standards in the U.S. for recognizing refugee status are way lower than Canada's. So Canada could recognize a legitimate refugee claimant from Colombia, and

Transport committee  All we have in the case of ICLMG is correspondence exchanged with two or three ministers of transport in the last three years, and all have said the same thing: “We negotiated as much as we could and got an exemption for domestic flights.” That's all we know. You've heard that

Transport committee  I was referring specifically to the real people who may be on the U.S. no-fly list.

Transport committee  The numbers have fluctuated in the U.S. In newspapers we've had figures of 70,000 names. We're not talking about false positives. We're talking about the real people who are on no-fly lists.