Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for being here.
Possessing a firm grasp of the obvious, I want to delve back to 2012. Back in those days, we saw some pretty significant cuts. CBSA was cut, I think, by about $143 million, including over 600 border inspectors, and about a third of DFO's habitat staff was cut to save $100 million.
Given what we've heard so far today, where everybody would like the federal government to have a bigger hand, can we all agree that it would not be such a good idea to do those cuts again?
You can say yes.