Well, I think the proof is there. We remember the Eldidi family, the father and son who were in the advanced stages of planning a mass terrorist attack in Toronto. We were advised by the Americans about this. We'd already granted those folks permanent residence. We were about to grant them citizenship. It surfaced that Eldidi the senior was filmed in an ISIS video in 2015 where some poor person was being beheaded.
I mean, we have been reckless—I'm sorry to say that—in terms of being naive or just assuming that most of the people here are legitimate people and are not like that. What you permit, you promote. If we're not doing a thorough job of checking people's backgrounds, particularly for terrorism or organized crime backgrounds, then we'll attract those people into Canada. We actually will attract those people into Canada.
The other big mistake we made was dropping the visa requirement for Mexican nationals in 2016. I think we're seeing evidence of cartel activity in Canada. I think that was another big mistake we made. It was naive for us to think that this wouldn't happen. I don't think it's wrong for us to inconvenience people and hold up their applications for a bit longer while we do our due diligence and satisfy ourselves about who they are. We shouldn't feel shame about that.
Again, I would point to that decision. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, there's a long article about that. We're somehow second-guessing ourselves on whether or not this is right, and we shouldn't second-guess ourselves. We have a right to know if people have a terrorist or organized crime background before we admit them into Canada.