Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Gentlemen, both of you are presenting fairly dichotomous views of the process of evaluating applicants for immigration into our country.
Mr. Brouwer, you're presenting a point of view that information obtained for individuals in sub-Saharan Africa, where record-keeping and other intelligence gathering may be less than robust, still is flagged on a file for years and years to come even after the individual presents himself or herself to Canada for years.
Mr. Bissett, you present an immigration screening system that basically could not tell you whether or not a current applicant has so much as a criminal record or any affiliation with a potential terrorist organization. If immigration officials were here before us, particularly the deputy minister, I think they would want to say that you're both wrong, which I think probably presents some interest to this committee in terms of what you had to say.
Mr. Bissett, I'm going to zero in on some of your comments, because I think as a committee, as parliamentarians, we really need you to uncover your suggestion, to provide further evidence to your suggestion that there really is basically no screening that occurs to the thousands and thousands of would-be landed immigrant applicants to Canada. Can you elaborate on what evidence you have for that particular suggestion?