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Public Accounts committee  We have to go into what lookouts are. There are different categories of lookouts. My colleague Mr. McRoberts, from the Auditor General's office, is referring to the FOSS system. The FOSS system is a database managed by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration that has inform

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  One thing the Auditor General pointed out is that we need to, and actually have, redesigned our lookout system to be clearer about those things. For instance, there are other databases with the police, such as CPIC, that we want to integrate into our system. But we have different

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  No, thank you. We agree with the essential points made here, and we will implement those. Thank you.

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I'll be happy to provide a breakdown of the cost for the arming program. I would say that the cost is obviously not just the cost of buying the firearm itself, which is about $500. The cost involves hiring people, developing trainers, removing people from the front lin

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  I'll say that with the more than 100 million interactions with Canadians that our officers have every year, we don't speak to the minister before each of them. It would be impossible and unnecessary. I think you are referring to two incidents that were in the paper everywhere du

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  With due respect, Mr. Chair, I still disagree with the way it was presented, but I'll be glad to provide the information we have on the number of lookouts that would have been missed.

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  I understand the point you're making. The Customs Act is such, though, that it's the responsibility of the carrier of the merchandise, of the goods, to present them to the customs office. The costs that we are talking about here are exactly that, for the presentation, basically b

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  The other way to look at it is that some people gain money by not having to present. But I agree with your point. This is something we should look at. But it would involve somebody paying for that operation one way or the other. Either it's spread to everybody--

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, my comment was with regard to the comment of the honourable member that one out of five, or 20%, of the lookouts are missed. This is simply wrong. Now you are focusing on the specifics of what the Auditor General has found with regard to FOSS in that period of time. I

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  If I may, on this one, this is the exact same point we discussed earlier vis-à-vis the necessity of the loop between primary and secondary, those loops of information that are being put in place. What happens is that at the secondary examination they will have access to the same

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  Most of the complaints we are receiving about fees at the moment come from the new system that was put in place by the U.S. I just wanted to put that in context. For people and containers coming to Canada, there are, on occasion, fees, such as the one you describe, for instance.

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman.

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, as Mr. Lussier said earlier, our risk analysis system, which will be fed by these new information sources, does not give a great deal of priority to purchases made in the United States compared to issues pertaining to drugs, weapons and terrorism. As far as that is

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur

Public Accounts committee  We'll do that.

February 5th, 2008Committee meeting

Alain Jolicoeur