Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome back. We certainly missed you. Welcome back to one of our guests, Ms. Jeanes, and welcome also to our guest overseas.
I'm going to start my questions with Mr. Oette. I hope I pronounced that correctly.
As you know, we've been studying security. You're probably very aware that we have problems with the asylum system in Canada. I'm going to outline one specific notable case, and I'm going to ask some questions related to that case afterwards.
The case is about a gentleman named Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, who carried out terrorist acts with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Despite Mohammad's established connection to terrorism, and there's no disputing his connection to terrorism, he has been able to remain in Canada since 1987. He has done so by launching a series of judicial appeals, a process that has cost Canadian taxpayers—and you might want to write this down—$3 million.
I'm listening to you speak about how we deal with people after they're already in Canada and we need to remove them, and our other witness this afternoon is talking about asylum seekers who are in detention because their identities are unknown.
My question for you, Mr. Oette, is, how do we prevent someone who is a threat to Canadian security from coming to Canada, instead of having the situation of someone like Mr. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad costing Canadian taxpayers $3 million and being here since 1987? What are the flaws in Canada's screening system that allowed him to come into Canada in the first place?