In terms of people arriving at either the land border or at airports, our officers would conduct the same level of rigour, the same sorts of questions, and make the same sorts of determinations in terms of how we are going to treat refugee applicants, as an example
In terms of the comments the Auditor General has made, I think there are some improvements we can look to--and that we have made up to now--in assuring that we are looking at consistent policy, consistent procedures at a couple of our land border points, and I think most notably that we're doing the right sorts of monitoring. In the nine months since the auditor has concluded her report we've made some inroads on that front.
In terms of where the risk lies, that will depend quite honestly on the location. We know that at certain locations in southern Ontario and the southern Quebec border, for example, we see more refugee claimants coming in. On a volume basis there tends to be a higher consequent risk that goes with that.
We also see a lot of refugee applications from Mexico coming in through the Trudeau Airport in Montreal. Again, on a volume basis we try to align our program and the number of officers and officer training to make sure we have the right sorts of skills and response to deal with the volumes we face at those individual places.
We also see time trends, quite honestly, where the level of refugee claimants will go up and fall. I think we have to be able to ensure that we can move resources to those locations to respond to the flows we see at any given point.