Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good afternoon, Minister.
I've been involved in the Roxham Road file from the very start, with my colleague Ms. Rempel Garner. The illegal migration situation became intense in 2017, when Mr. Trudeau posted his tweet.
There are two aspects to all that.
I listened closely to your speech, Minister. We hear what you say when you speak in your capacity as minister. Your position on the safe third country agreement is clear, as is your intention to control what goes on. You said the agreement would help ensure orderly immigration processing in Canada. I agree with you.
However, the questions my Liberal colleagues around the table are asking tend in another direction. It's as though Roxham Road were a normalized pathway for immigrating to Canada and one we would encourage.
We're saying, on the one hand, that people shouldn't enter Canada illegally or irregularly, but, on the other hand, that it's a good way to proceed. We're even talking about granting permanent residence and expediting the process.
What's our actual position?
What the NDP and Bloc Québécois are asking makes no sense. I'm in favour of the third safe country agreement, and I agree we have to solve the problems we're facing. On the other hand, I wonder what you, as minister, think is the right way to do it: is it what you described in your speech, or rather what emerges from the questions of your Liberal colleagues, or even from the position adopted by the officials who appeared before us? Listening to them, you'd almost think that people are welcome in Canada and that this is how you immigrate to our country.
What's the actual position?