Thank you very much.
I had the pleasure of working with customs officers for over 21 years in my official function as an RCMP and a CSIS officer. In my last position at CSIS, as a matter of fact, I was the national coordinator for the point-of-entry interdiction program for counterterrorism. I worked with 3,000 of them on a regular basis.
As a very personal comment only, I had quite a lot of respect for the work they were doing then. Following this study, they earned not only more of my respect but they earned my gratitude. The conditions under which we found they were working were unbelievable. To see men and women, day and night, perform this all year long is only remarkable.