Thank you for that advice, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses. It was very interesting testimony and a kind of a refreshing change for the committee.
About two years ago I went across the border. My riding is Saint John—Rothesay in southern New Brunswick, and we're close to the Maine border, obviously, which is about one hour away. We went through, and the U.S. Customs obviously pulled us over. They told us to go into the building and asked us to leave our cellphones in the car.
We went into the building, and were questioned for probably 10 or 15 minutes. My son was in motocross, so we were frequently at the border. We waited upwards of probably 20 to 25 minutes. They told us that we could leave and we went back to our car. There were no phones in the car.
We went back in and they gave us the phones back, but there was maybe a 30- to 40-minute period when we didn't have the phones. They came out with the phones and they asked my son to unlock his phone. He did, and again they disappeared. To make a long story short, we got the phones back, but it was certainly concerning and unsettling for all of us.
How concerned are each of you about cloning and mirroring devices, because I hear that agencies are increasingly cloning and mirroring devices. Obviously, they could follow and track what happened long after we left that border. Is that something you think is becoming more relevant as we move forward in this age of heightened security?
Ms. Bhandari.