Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister Goodale, it's good to see you. Welcome back, and a warm welcome to your senior departmental staff as well.
Minister, on previous occasions you've characterized the task at hand for the field of public safety, for this committee, and for your work, as not trading off rights versus security, and as the need to do both—to be good on security and to fully protect Canadians' rights, including charter rights.
In this case, there is a third spoke in the wheel, which is trade and the movement of people. It's about business. It's about tourism. It's about family relationships across the border. In my own reading, I discovered that in terms of pre-clearance, the cross-border relationship takes us back to 1952, some 67 years ago. While not all years had an agreement in place, it's certainly a relationship that operationally is deep and of long standing.
As you know, the committee travelled to Washington and, from our perspective, we want to echo the sentiments you described on the part of Secretary Kelly, which is really very positive feedback from congressional counterparts and also the DHS staff as to the nature of the border as it currently stands.
I want to ask you if you or the department have any statistics on the rate of incidents of withdrawal? You mentioned withdrawal from the process as one alternative to subjecting oneself to U.S. screening that one may disagree with. How many times has that actually happened? Do we have any numbers on that?