I appreciate that, and I'm pleased to hear that, because it's really quite important with our relationship with America.
Secretary Chertoff commented about border issues in January and suggested in his statement a number of problems he had with Canada and the 49th parallel. In that document, the sixth paragraph, it was actually a statement on 1,512, let's say, illegal people, potential terrorist-types, who presented themselves at the border, in a document that talked about the 49th parallel.
We did a little bit of looking, to find out... Well, that seems ridiculous that we'd have that kind of a problem in Canada, wanting to go to the United States. The Canadian embassy tells me that they found 20 of the 1,500. So the rhetoric becomes really extreme. The rest were all from the southern border.
It really is important that we have our facts right on this, if we're going to fight the battles that we have with regard to educating our southern neighbour, who seems to be very phobic about the attack of 9/11 and the changing dynamics of what's happened there. I appreciate what you're doing, and I applaud you for it, because it's going to stimulate more work on our side to be able to get the right data.
There is something else I wanted to talk about in the report, which is public health. This takes me to a past life. I was chair of the health committee. SARS should have taught us more lessons than any other country in the world with regard to making sure that we know who's in charge when an incident of pandemic or a serious situation happens. I'm a little disturbed that your report shows that we still haven't got the communications right between the provinces and territories and the federal government. Can you tell me where the roadblock really is? I know Mr. Kramp went down this line a little bit, but this is startling to me.