Safety Canada: Canada and u.s

safety canada: It has long been shared with Canadian border and immigration officers who compare the names of people arriving in, or applying to come to, Canada against the roster, according to National Observer. Information sharing was a focus of discussion in March 2016 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met then-U.S. president Barack Obama in Washington. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien recently received a federal assessment of the new version of the program known as Tuscan, short for Tipoff U.S./Canada, to gauge its implications for sensitive personal data. ; Established in 1997, Tuscan is a U.S. list of names and other basic information about known or suspected terrorists. Public Safety Canada and the U.S. Terrorist Screening Centre signed an updated Tuscan arrangement in early June 2016, with the changes expected to take effect in summer or fall of 2017, say internal memos released under the Access to Information Act. However, authorities are still fine-tuning details of the revised Tuscan. Officials say the new arrangement is now in place. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.