Can you tell us a bit about the kind of surveillance systems we had, whether we had any real-time surveillance in reporting and whether we had adverse-event reporting?

Mr. Waldman, my question is fairly straightforward. In the society where we live, where technology is so advanced that now we talk about electronic monitoring and so on, if a person comes in and he's not documented and we don't know who he is—we know how he got in, he flew in—then isn't it the responsibility of us as Canadians, as parliamentarians, to ensure we understand all that information first, through interviews, and questioning, and perhaps our links to Interpol and foreign governments, before we even allow him into the society in general?

sightings of fishing vessels by inspection vessels or surveillance aircrafts.

Electronic surveillance works by requiring offenders or prisoners to wear a transmitter (usually an electronic bracelet) which makes it possible to detect their presence in (or absence from) a particular location (usually the home) designated by the competent authority for a given period.

As one of the conditions, the judge could order electronic monitoring in provinces where such programs exist.

With respect to electronic surveillance, the Anti-terrorism Act amended the Code’s wiretap provisions so that the investigative powers introduced in 1997 to make it easier to use electronic surveillance against criminal organizations could also be used to investigate the terrorism offences described above.