I do have confidence in that. As I gather, Ms. Charlton put a motion before the committee to have Minister Blaney come before the committee. He can speak in more detail about the department of Public Safety and its decision on allocation of resources, but I would also reiterate what I said in French: we wouldn't bring forward legislation without having consulted the CBSA, without having done our due diligence to ensure that these new powers wouldn't be authorized without adequate resources to see them realized on the ground in a practical way.
Every organization wishes it had more funding. In governing, you have to make choices. CBSA has to make choices within its structure, and we have a commitment as a government to balance the budget in 2015. We have limited tax resources coming in. We have to deploy them responsibly, and I have every confidence that CBSA can do its job, and, by the way, perhaps even do its job more efficiently and better with these tools.
When we pass other legislation in the criminal justice area where we increase penalties or we have more tools for the prosecution of certain criminals, it doesn't then necessarily mean that the OPP needs to have an increase in its budget because we have different laws. No, we provide law enforcement with new legislation and new powers sometimes resulting in a reduction of cost of investigation and ease of enforcement that allows them to do their jobs more efficiently.