I should point out that the RCMP, CSIS, and CBSA officials who have testified before us have identified biometrics as a 21st-century identification tool that is used in many other countries. Certainly the sharing of information with friendly countries would help identify potential risks from those coming here.
What we want to do with the bill, and this is the minister's intention, the ministry's intention, and the government's intention, quite frankly, is try to weed out those people who are clogging up the system, so that the very people who need that assistance that was referred to by Madame Cleveland and Madame Rousseau in their presentations can have easier and faster access into Canada. That's the intent of this bill, to declog it from those who are using illicit means.
Mr. Grubel, we get many refugee claims that are abandoned or stopped by the person who wants to come here. They are, in large number, from the European Union, at an annual cost to the taxpayer of about $170 million to process by the time they decide—