I don't think I would want to speak in general terms of the experience of the department. I would just say, I think, that one of the reasons that the operation was successful was that it was the most intense interdepartmental coordination effort that, certainly, I'd ever witnessed. There was a daily call of a very large table of deputy ministers every morning at eight, for week after week after week. Although that was trying at times for all of us, I think that paid dividends in ensuring that our departments were working very closely together from the start of the process to the end, from arrivals at the airport, the welcome centres, and flowing on into social supports through the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, Foreign Affairs, the Department of National Defence, and so forth. I think that was a lesson which, if we're doing an operation like this again, we would replicate to some extent.
On May 12th, 2016. See this statement in context.