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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity to appear before the committee as you begin discussions on the security of Canada's immigration system. In chapter 2 of our most recent report in the fall of 2011, we looked at the processes followed and the information made available
February 16th, 2012Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee There are reasons for that. Different departments are involved. There is CSIS, the RCMP, the Canadian Border Services Agency and CIC. We have to make decisions and there is information to look at. We did not look into the system in other departments because the Canadian Border Se
November 23rd, 2011Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee It does. In this audit, we limited ourselves to the part of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that says that there are some health reasons and some security reasons why you cannot enter Canada. We looked at the system in place, with CIC and the Canadian Border Services
November 23rd, 2011Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee One of the things that really stood out for us was how quickly everyone responded and that the departments were able to work within an extremely short amount of time with very limited information to put together very well-developed plans and budgets. While they were very high and
October 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee I don't think there's anything really to add to that. We did ask if there was more documentation available other than through the normal channels, which would be Infrastructure Canada, and we were given, as Mr. Wiersema said, a few documents, but they really were not helpful in d
October 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee We had already seen a blank version of the application form, so we had noticed on the bottom who you were to send applications to, which is why we approached the minister's office. But in the course of the audit there was nothing forthcoming.
October 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Chair. We made simple investigations into why it was $50 million, but there was really very little information available. We had asked, through the normal course of doing our interviews, the departments that were involved in this, but they had explained to us that it
October 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Chair. I believe you are referring to paragraph 7.37, where they are talking about exercises. While we found that some exercises were conducted, they were not able to get as many exercises under way as they initially had hoped. There were issues regarding getting all
November 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee In some cases, yes.
November 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Chair. I believe we are talking about two things. When you talk about the national plan, you are talking mainly about how the federal government is working with the provinces and territories and municipalities. That's something we didn't particularly address in this a
November 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee Certainly. I will have to draw your attention back to the 2005 chapter. Fortunately, I happen to have it in front of me. Some of the recommendations basically looked at, in dealing with the security of the passport application, the integrity of the information, guarding infor
June 9th, 2009Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Chair. I think the first thing in the Canada first defence strategy was the change in focus on buying new equipment.That would have had a significant impact on the department. Secondly, as you mentioned, there was the commitment to grow the Canadian Forces. There as
May 14th, 2009Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. The department's budget, as you know, is increasing over time. I think we have a graph here in the chapter that indicates--it's 5.3, on page 6--where the budget is going. A lot of that is there to help the department with its acquisitions
May 14th, 2009Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
Public Accounts committee If I may, Mr. Chairman, I'll answer that question. If I understand, you're asking about the $7 million and the $6.6 million. These were inventory counts. National Defence went in, basically to do a spot check: “This is what we expect to see. Is it there?” If items were not ther
June 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk
National Defence committee When we looked at, basically, where are the doctors and what are they doing, our concern at that time was, why is there a shortage of doctors? We were able to find that a certain number of them were applying direct hands-on patient care in the clinics, but there's also a requirem
March 6th, 2008Committee meeting
Wendy Loschiuk