National Defence committee  It's not something that we have the mandate for right now. We certainly work with those partner agencies. We don't do exchanges, sending our personnel to their organizations at this point, but they do work very closely. Whether with JRCCs or MSOCs, those are areas where our respe

National Defence committee  Yes, it has an effect. I talked a little bit about the situation at the North Pole and working with Russia. For us, the situation in the Arctic with respect to Russia and China is different. Russia is an Arctic state and a member of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Coast Guard F

National Defence committee  I don't, no. The JRCC essentially is co-run by the Coast Guard and the Canadian Forces and uses all the different assets that are out there. It's something that we could certainly respond to with data, but I don't have it with me. Thank you.

National Defence committee  It would be hard for me to comment on exactly what they're doing. I think the main thing that I would want to delineate is the difference between maritime and other search and rescue. I suspect that a lot of the search and rescue they're involved in is actually land based and t

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, ultimately, it's not so much about having a temporary constabulary duty or capability, if you will; it's more about having the people with the authority on board the ship. The most common situation for us, for example, is having a Transport Canada inspector on board a

National Defence committee  We do not, typically.

National Defence committee  We have the capability to do so when required for those organizations. It can happen very quickly. If it's something that's an emergency situation, it's all about where the RCMP or Transport Canada member might be, and the location, but if it's something just offshore, where they

National Defence committee  Illegal fishing is something that would be more the purview of some of my colleagues in the rest of DFO. What I can say from the Coast Guard perspective, though, is that we do support the conservation and protection program in that interdiction, and again, they are the ones who

National Defence committee  Yes, that's essentially accurate. The information would go to the MSOCs, where those other departments sit, and then a decision could be made by those departments with the authority to say that we need to get out there, and then they would essentially request us to do so.

National Defence committee  We worked very closely with the Auditor General on this report, and the Coast Guard supports the recommendations that were made. Ultimately—

National Defence committee  That there are improvements to be made with regard to the sharing of information, absolutely we do.

National Defence committee  From that perspective, yes, I would agree with that.

National Defence committee  We have very high confidence. It's really with regard to some of the smaller yachts and leisure craft that don't have a regulatory requirement to have AIS on board where it's possible that some come in that we, as the Coast Guard, are not aware of, but for larger vessels, we ha

National Defence committee  My assessment—again, having worked with the Auditor General in developing the report and in reading the recommendations—isn't so much that from a Coast Guard perspective we feel that we don't have the information to do what our mandate requires. I think what the Auditor General i

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. With your permission, some parts duplicate my first opening statement, so I could skip over those.