I would not accept the premise of your question, Mr. Trudeau. I would contend that smugglers provide an illegal service for a fee, as opposed to traffickers, who bring people against their will. Yes, some of their customers may be asylum seekers, some of whom will presumably be false asylum seekers and some of whom will be bona fide refugees, but some may also be economic migrants.
I bring you the example of the Fujian vessels, five vessels that arrived in Canada in 1999 and 2000. All evidence is they were intending to transit through Canada to work illegally in the United States and weren't terribly interested in making asylum claims. The proof of that is as soon as they lost at first instance at the IRB, they all willingly got on planes and went back home rather than appealing.
I would point out, with respect to Tamil customers for the smuggling syndicates, CBC did a report about a month ago in Chennai, India, where Tamils had paid smuggling syndicates thousands of dollars to come to Canada illegally and they said that it was for economic reasons.
So there's a mix of motives for customers.