Finance committee  The last person standing is either good or bad.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  It's kind of interesting, because once we…. If we could relocate to the U.S.--is that the question?

Finance committee  We would love to be able to do that. We don't have a means or an agreement to do that yet. In fact, that's what we are working on right now as part of the Beyond the Border action plan, the security and prosperity partnership. Negotiations will begin shortly with the United State

Finance committee  The flooding has been the most prominent one out in the Red River area, and in New Brunswick we've had a few offices we've had to close down. As I said, fortunately the floods receded without interfering too much. The one big one we're facing now, which has gone on for almost 3

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  It's happened a number of times. I can't tell you exactly. But the fortunate thing is that they had Emerson east and west at the time, and they're not all that far apart, so they were able to double up the traffic there.

Finance committee  In the case of something like this occurring at one of our major ports of entry, where we're getting a truck in Windsor every seven seconds, for example, without the ability to move it, it would be devastating not only to the local economy but the Canadian economy at large, becau

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  It's been questioned. One of the communities that is at the Cornwall-Massena crossing is the Mohawk community. Community members account for a large percentage of the traffic that goes through the Cornwall-Massena crossing. The geography is quite unique there—you have parts of Ca

Finance committee  Not particularly, no. It will provide us a legal foundation so that we can have all of our authorities to act appropriately, because currently we don't.

Finance committee  Absolutely. This isn't to pick sides with the smugglers or the residents who are all law-abiding people in the majority. It's one of those situations where Cornwall is somewhat unique because of the description you've just played with—cigarette smuggling and people smuggling, qui

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  It's not exactly the same, but the United States Border Patrol has an authority that we in Canada don't. They have the ability to stop traffic that is near the border and do questioning, which is similar to this but not exactly the same. We do not have the authority to stop traff

Finance committee  This was in response to the problems we had at the Cornwall-Massena crossing. The sections would be put in the act in case this ever occurs again. We learned from that occasion that we weren't prepared for a situation where there was an emergency or a very unusual circumstance th