Just to clarify, I think that every member of all parties on this committee would condemn human trafficking and people smuggling, and it's not something that we want to see by any means.
What we try to do is share good information about the process of making asylum claims in Canada and work with our international partners, in this case the United States, to let them know when we hear of trends that are happening within their borders that are not within the jurisdiction of the Government of Canada. Of course, we can't send the RCMP into the United States to start busting human trafficking rings that are taking place outside of our own borders, but we need to continue to work with our international partners and to provide good information.
On the issue of the safe third country agreement, this is not necessarily your perspective, but it's come up in other members' questions. Removing the safe third country agreement could result in an increase in the number of people who are seeking to come to Canada through irregular ways and making an asylum claim when they arrive, and that's something we want to protect against.