I think it's important to understand this issue. I was a police officer for 25 years in Toronto, and I had to deal with military police officers who continually brought drunk drivers in for me to do breathalyzer tests on. Their policy was for me to carry the investigation. I would turn around and hand them the reports and say, start filling out your own reports, because I'm not going to babysit you; you're police officers, so you can do your own work.
It's basically the same situation. Why are we sapping away resources from, say, Windsor police department and the Niagara regional police department to do something that the CBSA has every authority to do but are not given the tools to do it properly? If somebody wants to run that border, why doesn't CBSA have a pursuit car fully fired up and ready to go to chase that car down, and communicate with the local police that we need some assistance but we're behind the runner?
I just do not understand that. I am completely at a loss to understand why a municipal police service should have to budget to help out the CBSA with anything.