Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I just add that the act does permit us to act. For example, if someone is a permanent resident, is then involved in serious criminality, and is not a Canadian citizen, we can take enforcement action, but again, all through those steps we have checks and balances. I would say everybody is entitled to one mistake.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do not believe so. Let me just check that out, if I can.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, the issue is on a case-by-case basis. We would always look at a case and ask whether, given the details of the case, removing that person to a country is something we want to do or not do. In the case of temporary suspension of removals, we're saying that in all cases, except for those of criminals, we will not remove.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could be wrong on this. I can check and get back to you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the past we would really detain only very low-risk people, normally for short periods of time. Either we would be looking for when they arrived in Canada--to be able to really determine their identity--or they'd be on their way out, and we'd had trouble in the past, such as flight risk or danger to the security and safety of Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Six people.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are four. I guess it depends on your definition of “almost”.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, certificate cases are not used very widely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is under the responsibility of CBSA, but again, we are not experts in detention, so it is Correctional Service officers who have been seconded to CBSA.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They are responsible to CBSA, so in the case of problems, CBSA is held accountable.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We detain children very rarely. For example, in April 2006, I know there were 10 detentions of children for short periods of time. The problem with our statistical system is that we're not able to say that this child was detained for two days or this child was detained for four days.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is temporary suspension of removals.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Technically, I think we have a commitment to review them every two years. One way new countries could be put on the list or be reviewed is based on our own intelligence telling us there is a problem here, and we should be working on it. We depend a lot on Citizenship and Immigration officers overseas to say there's a problem with sending people to this place or that place.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I would like to say is that there was never any written policy about it. The practice was that we would never go systematically into schools. There were exceptional cases. We would normally go when a parent or a guardian asked us, in cases where they had been detained and asked us to stop by the school to pick up the children.