Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all of you for being here today.
We know that we've been able to place RCMP officers on coast guard vessels, we have new screening devices at airports, and we have extensive information-sharing programs, but based on what the Auditor General has said we have zero idea if any of this is working. I want to take the approach from our ever-changing relationship with our U.S. counterparts. I'll open this up to everybody.
Do we have any knowledge if the U.S. has set performance indicators and if they are meeting those? Where they've done the work, do we have the opportunity to benefit from it?
Just before I open it up I'll draw your attention to back when this was started. In 2011 there was an article in the National Post that indicated, from the reference of one senior official, that “Canadian officials said they were reassured that implementation of the action plan will be run from the White House.” Is that an indication that we have the expectation that they would set the bar for a lot of these and that we would then react to it? Do you have any more insight on possibly why that was said?