Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again to the officials for being here today.
I think this is where we're talking about data. It would be really good to have data that compares apples to apples in this sense, and over a longer period. We've just heard allegations, for example, about certain periods of time and that certain things have escalated and so on.
For my first question, what I would be interested in getting for the committee is a breakdown of the staffing level, both for the RCMP and for CBSA officers, over different periods. That would be for the period of the previous administration, that 10-year period under the Harper administration. Separated out from that period, how many staff—RCMP officers—were there, as well as CBSA officers, during that period, breaking it down year by year, along with the budget?
I think budgetary constraints have implications as well. I fully understand that sometimes within the departments certain urgent things come up and you redeploy, but if you've lost budgets as well as staffing, you're just sort of plugging a hole over here with something else.
Getting that data would be really useful, that data for that period, as well as the period from 2015 to now. Is it possible that this is something you can table with the committee, breaking it down year by year, both on the staffing level and on the budget level, for both the RCMP and the CBSA?