When we think of the different agencies—and I'm speaking on the enforcement side of the programs—we have the RCMP, CSIS and the CBSA. There is lack of coordination among these. The RCMP is tasked with doing border security in some of our provinces. The provincial governments have implemented their own border patrols and that sort of thing. The disconnect between.... Even within the federal government, with the RCMP and the CBSA, we're just not seeing the working together, the coordination and the moving forward.
I suggest we follow what the Australians have done: have one agency that's responsible for the integrity and enforcement of the program, and staff it so that it's able to actually do its job. Of course, we have to have the immigration department driving this, but we need to have an enforcement component that is effective. We're a huge country, so having a number of agencies that have a little bit of responsibility here and there.... By having it in one, it will be more efficient and effective. At the end of the day, we'll see that others that are engaged can do other jobs, such as the RCMP looking at federal policing matters.
It's really an efficiency issue. There's been very good success in Australia with this approach. I think we should probably follow that.
