Our position is that there should be no foreign agents conducting strip searches here in Canada, period. We think it's bad policy.
We are already asking U.S. officers to learn Canadian law and standards, to keep abreast of that at the same time as they have to know their own law and constitution, and to apply these things on the go all the time. Then we want to confer them this additional power to do the most intrusive thing that any police officer in Canada is ever permitted to do to someone. It doesn't get more intrusive than that, other than a digital search. This is the apex of how much the state can intrude on you.
As a matter of policy, it's a bad idea. It could lead to problems. As a matter of constitutionality and principle, this is such an intimate function, which citizens are content to allow the state to have in very limited circumstances in order to maintain all of our safety and security and everything else. The relationship between the state and individual, where it's going to get so intimate and coercive, is just so critical that it should never be delegated, not to a private security agent, not to any—