CBSA's recent departmental results found that the agency continued to miss key performance targets and had a lack of follow-through. The government has promised to hire 1,000 new CBSA officers. I was speaking in the House today about the problem with CBSA. One thousand new officers are a drop in the bucket of what is actually needed across the board to manage not just asylum seekers but border issues across the country.
I think it was Mr. Bellissimo who said that the IRB would have a better-informed intake process through parts of this legislation, but I just learned, for example, that CBSA reduced its detention capacity by over 40%. Now, for people coming into the country seeking asylum, the CBSA is discouraging those who are deemed to be a difficult case to be put into the community. That, in and of itself, creates another burden for the Canadian taxpayer.
What impact do you think this would have on the judicial process that these people may be going through, having been discharged from a detention centre, as an asylum seeker, into the community? Does that complicate the process through which they would proceed in order to find a determination of admissibility?
Ms. Tamjeedi.