Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here.
Thank you as well to each one of the officials. I want you to know how much we appreciate the good work you do in helping to keep our country safe.
Minister, I want to ask you about something very specific, and that is CBSA, the Canada Border Services Agency. There has been a lot of misinformation from the opposition and from others with regard to what some of our changes have meant. I think the motivation sometimes for the misinformation might not always be honourable, because we have made some cuts to fat in CBSA and to some areas where taxpayers' dollars were going that didn't necessarily produce what taxpayers would ask for, which is to keep our borders safe and secure.
I'm wondering if you could comment specifically on the investments that we have made with regard to front-line border officers, as well as what some of our changes have meant. For example, there has been misinformation out there that we've cut drug-sniffing dogs at the border. We know that this is not true.
Can you clarify our investments at the border, and what some of our changes to waste and mismanagement have meant?