You made some points about SEMA and our inability to deal with individuals who might be coming in. Without speaking to the powers that the government would have under another statute, such as IRPA, I would note that it is important to remember that a number of the actions we take under various statutes are actually Governor in Council decisions, which by their very nature implicate a collective decision-making process, multiple ministers around the table. This means that departments have to work together and coordinate, both to support these types of decisions and to ensure a whole-of-government coherence in the way they are looking at what they may be considering under various policy and operational contexts under their own statutes.
I think the issue at the core of your question is whether we have a bit of a gap in coordination and coherence because of the statutes. You will know better than I that, in our western model of government, ministerial accountability or collective accountability of the cabinet process is an interesting dynamic, but it doesn't take away from individual ministerial responsibilities and accountabilities under statutes before Parliament. Therefore, we have to work within those constructs.
The construct or the solution to that challenge, inherently, is interdepartmental collaboration.