That's what I understood.
Here's my concern. We have a budget right now for Mr. Kennedy's office that's at $5.2 million. It's actually smaller because it's been eaten away with inflation. That's against a budget for the RCMP of over $4.25 billion. At the same time, because we don't have this legislative mandate, we have to spend tens of millions of dollars on inquiries in order to get into some of these matters.
If I could get to the crux of it, there are dark corners that right now, Mr. Kennedy, you are not able to look into. In other words, if there is a question you have with respect to something that's going on, a complaint you get, if the RCMP says they don't want to provide you with that information, they're unable to, because of the current legislative restrictions. Is that correct?
Second, there are also situations in which if something happens with CBSA, there's no way of reviewing that at all. I fail to see, regarding the examples that Mrs. Pollak gave, that we can investigate everything that's going on with CSIS. How is that the case if you have something that involves more than one intelligence agency? Justice O'Connor has been fairly consistent on the need to try to integrate these and find a way to follow something beyond just one agency. These things are multi-agency.
I'm hearing a lot of questions from the government side about being the world's best and whether we are better than other countries. I'm not hearing a lot of questions about why we haven't implemented O'Connor's recommendations, what deficiencies there are there, and what the dangers are of not implementing these recommendations, so I want to come back to that. People will go away from this saying everything's just hunky-dory, and we really don't need to implement Justice O'Connor's recommendations. There are all kinds of things that can't be done, and worse yet, enormous amounts of money will be wasted because you don't have the legislative authority to investigate something, and we will have to have tens of millions of dollars spent on an inquiry.