Let me elaborate.
I think the concern of the Canadian public is not the numbers of people. It's the way they enter, and secondarily, the extent to which the system processes them slowly. I think if the same number of asylum claimants were presenting themselves at an official crossing or at an airport or something, and if the IRB and CBSA systems were working more quickly and efficiently, there would be no controversy to this. It would be part of the background noise of varying opinions about immigration, which are generally supportive.
The fact that people are forced, through a circumstance or through what they see as circumstance, to present themselves at crossing points between official crossings is something that the Canadian public does not endure. There's a long history that the Canadian public is quite tolerant of our UN obligations on asylum, regardless of the numbers year to year, within reason. However, whenever there's an irregular entry, whenever a boat shows up in British Columbia or whenever people walk across the border in more than negligible numbers, it becomes a political crisis that hurts support for the system. Rather than trying to reassure people on that, I think there are ways to shift that to more regular processes and to quicker processes.