Thank you, Minister, for being here.
I wanted to start by allowing us to elaborate a bit on our exchange in the House of Commons today and talk about that Canada Border Services Agency report on the Mexican drug cartels, and the concern expressed in the CBSA report that removing the visa requirement in fact extends the reach of the violent drug cartels to expand into Canada. In particular, there was a concern that they merely would replace the fentanyl shipments from China that we're trying to crack down on with more cartel shipments from Mexico.
I want to give you the opportunity to respond for a bit more than 35 seconds on that. It was not a concern that I was aware of before this report was made available to a journalist—an internal report of the CBSA—but now it's of grave concern. We do not want to see increases in fentanyl and increased deaths because of fentanyl or any other harmful drugs in our society. We don't want to see the increase in violence that normally attends with the Mexican drug cartel.
On the one hand, you have lifted the visa requirement, and on the other hand, we have this concern expressed by Canada Border Services Agency officials. I want to give you the floor to answer more fully than we could do in Parliament.