Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Weber, for your incredible patience with us today and at previous meetings of public accounts. You also appeared in front of the public safety committee just a few weeks ago, and we thank you for that appearance on behalf of CBSA officers and public sector employees right across the country, who do fabulous work on our behalf.
You referenced at that time and referenced again in your statement today the massive cuts that were made to CBSA officers across the country in 2014 under the former Conservative government. This is connected, of course, with the rise we've seen in auto thefts, and generally tied to the issue of ArriveCAN is the fact that those positions have not been fully restored.
Can you tell us a bit about the dramatic impact of those Conservative cuts and where the government should have gone in terms of making investments in frontline CBSA officers so that we would have in place functioning systems at the border?