It would be correct, Mr. Chair, to say that we didn't find anything that would lead us to suspect corruption.
What we found in the course of all the types of issues that we identified were signs that the controls were not followed. Whether it was the 300,000 vehicles that entered without the information being collected, or the sharing of user ID information, or not following up on lookouts, we found the controls were not followed in a number of instances. Any time that a control is not followed, there is, on the one hand, the possibility that it could just have been an oversight, or, on the other hand, that it could have been deliberate. We had no way of following up further to identify whether in any of those cases they were deliberate.
I can't say that there was anything that indicated to us that there was corruption, but I think that any time these types of controls are not followed, that's a serious issue. In the case of those controls, CBSA needs to be able to use their information better to follow up quickly.
The anomalies that we identified, the situations where the controls were not followed, were all fairly easy for the department to identify. They should be identifying them and following up on them, because they could be indications that people were doing things that they shouldn't have been doing.