It's interesting, because at committee just Monday, there was a bit of a conversation in a sidebar between CBSA's president and me on this very question. To show that we're focused and prioritization is important, we were talking about an indicator in the border system. If that student who is not talking to us travels out of the country and then back into the country, there should be an indicator to CBSA that says, “We're looking for Ted.”
I think it's really about designing a compliance framework around that. For IRCC, there has been a lot of focus on the front end. There's been a lot of focus on helping refugees and helping facilitate, but we need that same energy to be applied to the back end. An example of how to find a student is to put an indicator in the border system. If that person ever crosses the border back and forth, then we're able to force a conversation.
That's just one example of how we need to think through a compliance framework that puts some teeth into the process.
