On Saturday, February 21, a group of people who had gone over to the United States the day before, a caravan of buses, many of them from my constituency, returned from the United States and were detained at the crossing at Fort Erie for nine hours. There were 20 busloads of Canadians who were detained for nine hours--men, women, and children.
When they got on their buses in Toronto and the GTA they were all required to present, voluntarily, their documentation, their citizenship papers, etc., to ensure that one person didn't detain a whole busload. They went over to the United States. They had no problem entering the United States. They came back, and all 20 buses were detained for nine hours--men, women, and children. They weren't allowed to get off the buses to go to the washroom or anything.
How could that have happened? On what basis would these people have been held? There were 1,000 people, so it must have gone up through your ranks, unless you detain 1,000 people every day. And 1,000 people out of 14,000 would be a significant event in the life of your agency, I would assume.