The ongoing news on this Cuba episode really brings into focus the very real dangers and threats that exist to our missions.
Your answers to the questions by Madam Mendès about trying to quantify or to understand the threats that exist, I think are going to be cold comfort for the 7,800 employees in Canada's foreign missions. We have an Auditor General's report that is full of examples of failures to address known threats. We're not even dealing with the threats we know about, never mind new threats that are only beginning to be understood.
I bring to your attention, under paragraph 4.24, the following:
security measures recommended for implementation at each of the six missions had not been tracked or prioritized for action. For example, at one mission, the perimeter was identified in 2011 as a critical vulnerability requiring very urgent attention. But during our site visit in 2018, we found that this issue had not yet been resolved....
You identified a critical threat in 2011, and in 2018 it hadn't been addressed.
This is a committee where we demand accountability for how the funds authorized by Parliament have been spent to execute the policy of the government. We have a report full of examples of failures to protect our own employees in foreign missions.
Please explain why there have been these failures to implement known security mitigation measures.