Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As was mentioned, we did note in the report that there were certain individuals who were on watch lists who did not go through the secondary inspection we would have expected. As well, certain containers were allowed into the country and had been clearly identified as ones that should not be able to come in. The difficulty we had is that the agency doesn't have a system to collect information, so we were unable to determine, for example with the containers, if it was because they had received additional information and determined that this was a low-risk container or if it was simply an error that occurred and the container came in and should not have come in.
It's the same thing with the people on the watch list. It was difficult to know why those people were let in. Was it an error, or was it because, as we mentioned in the report, sometimes the name doesn't exactly match?
So one of our major recommendations in all of this--and a recommendation actually the office has been making for several years--is that the agency should have much more information, should know the results of its secondary inspection, for example, and should have much more rigorous information systems. They are working on developing this, but it's still in the very early stages.