Q-444 , 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to the statement made at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, on October 2, 2025, by Uyen Hoang, Director General, Citizenship Branch, at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, that “we do have a program called entry and exit, [...] there are mechanisms in place in order to know when an individual is leaving a country”: (a) what department, agency, police force or combination thereof, is responsible for this program; (b) when did this program come into effect; (c) from which countries does this program track exit and entry data; (d) from the start of the program, or the 2015-16 fiscal year, whichever is oldest, what is the annual level of funding for the program; (e) from the start of the program, or the 2015-16 fiscal year, whichever is oldest, how many full-time equivalents are assigned to work under the program umbrella; (f) how does the program collect exit numbers; (g) what companies are contracted or subcontracted to execute this program, and what is the value of the each contract awarded to contractors or subcontractors; (h) from the start of the program, or the 2015-16 fiscal year, whichever is oldest, and broken down by each border crossing and mode, how many people exited the country, and of those people, how many were (i) Canadians, (ii) non-Canadians; (i) what are the details of the non-Canadians who exited the country in (h)(ii), including (i) on which permits were they previously allowed entry into the country, (ii) which permits were no longer valid at the time of their exit; and (j) what percentage of temporary residents are identified as having overstayed their lawful period of entry in Canada?