Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Cabana, like Mr. Oliphant, I'm a little unhappy with the responses to the concerns about firearms. You are the assistant commissioner for the federal and international operations directorate. In your remarks you said you were working to ensure the safety and security of Canadians and their institutions domestically and globally, and that
Border integrity falls under FIO and encompasses branches with expertise in investigating cross-border criminality and identifying threats to Canada’s national security along the shared land border and at major air and marine entry points.
The entry of prohibited weapons into the country, whether they be handguns or assault rifles or other weapons readily available in the U.S., seems to me to be an overriding concern, yet you're telling us to ask the Canadian Border Service when they come here.
Do you feel that measures are adequate? I'll give you an example. It's been suggested by one employee of the border service that Americans travelling through Canada to Alaska are permitted to take their guns if they declare them. Sometimes they declare as many as ten or more guns. Yet there's no system in place to find out whether these guns actually leave Canada once they come in.
Does your organization have any concerns about the methodologies used at the border, how easy it is for guns to get into the country, whether this kind of system is adequate, etc.? Or are you saying it's not your affair, that it's the Canadian Border Service?