Mr. Minister, I'm very proud to be a Canadian on hearing those remarks.
One of the hallmarks of your work is that you engage the Canadian public in what you do. One of the programs is the most wanted list. Two criminals have been deported recently through the help of Canadians who were responding to the appeal of the most wanted list. One of them was somebody from the Congo: Abraham Bahaty Bayavuge, who had been deported in 2006 and came back again.
As someone who has worked in the Congo with Canadian Food for the Hungry, I find it an outrage that we would be hurting our bilateral relations by suggesting that people can get back in once we deport them. I'm wondering what your response is.
I understand that some people, having been deported, have got back in five, ten, fifteen, or even twenty times. Will biometrics be helpful in excluding people, in identifying people who have been deported so that they can't come back in again?