Thank you.
I want to pursue this and get your response on it, because I know that the issue of detention is an area of concern for all of us, not just the opposition. The purpose and intent of what we're trying to accomplish with respect to detention is to ensure that individuals who should not be out in the Canadian public are simply not.
I would ask you: when those slightly fewer than 500 individuals landed in British Columbia, would it have been right, just based on the fact that a majority of them could apply for refugee status, to simply release them all into the country with no regard for background checks, no regard for identification, and no regard for ensuring the safety of Canadians, simply because a majority of them were not considered war criminals?