Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll go back to the “Canada to lift visa requirements for Mexico” press release of June 28, 2016. It's on the Prime Minister's website. It's still there. It says, “while preventing any increase in asylum claims or other irregular migration. Officials plan to meet regularly to promote these mutual interests.”
My question is for IRCC. The other two gentlemen can relax. I'll have questions for them in a moment.
The minister was incapable of answering a question about what programs, public policies or internal departmental things were going on to try to keep the numbers down. It's a 2,000% increase.
What are the programs? What was done in 2016 when the visa requirement was lifted? The minister couldn't answer.