Public Accounts committee  Correct.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, that's all correct, with a plan to roll it out to other regions as well.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, I would be happy to answer that question. It was between 2010-11 and 2013-14.

Public Accounts committee  Sorry, could you repeat the question?

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.

Public Accounts committee  I don't know that I would say more lenient. I think that the point is generally when you see non-concurrence, it is because Corrections Canada is recommending someone for release and the Parole Board is saying no.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. To clarify for the member a bit, in this report we don't look at why there is occasionally non-concurrence with the Parole Board. However, last year we published a chapter on the expansion of facilities. We did note in that report that there was a study d

Public Accounts committee  I'd be happy to elaborate just a little bit on that. There is a difference in what we saw. We did visit Europol, and we also, of course, saw many of the liaison officers in the different embassies. In the embassies they are working with local police organizations, sometimes the

Public Accounts committee  To add a bit to that, generally speaking we are dealing with countries that are signatories to the Vienna Convention. However, their legal frameworks do tend to be different. There was more latitude in some of the sharing of information allowed between agencies in some of the oth

Public Accounts committee  In general, certainly what we heard from liaison officers and consular officials in a few other cases was that it is routine and a normal practice to share information that comes into the consular office with their law enforcement agency.

Public Accounts committee  For example, it would be, “We know of citizens X, Y, and Z in this country who have been arrested. That may be something that is useful to you.”

Public Accounts committee  Yes. It's been a little while since we reviewed the blue ribbon panel report, but I believe there were 32 recommendations, and I'm quite certain that was one of the key aspects of it, the importance of consultation with the community that's going to be affected by the changes.

Public Accounts committee  In all five cases we did find there was some degree of consultation. So it wasn't a situation where they were just going ahead and making changes without any consultation. There always was.... And we pointed out a couple of cases, particularly with respect to HRSDC—as has already

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we could say that. In terms of consulting with the stakeholders and the recipients, they were effectively talking with them. There was communication on the loss of records on file.

Public Accounts committee  I'll just add one point. On one hand, it's an interesting question. It refers to the need to make sure that the criteria we use and how we weight them is reviewed regularly. I think the other point that needs to be appreciated, as we say in paragraph 2.44, is that there needs t