I think I would agree with the CBSA testimony that I've seen before this committee to the effect that the provisions of Bill C-21 will not make the border stickier in the sense of holding back the flow of people or goods. As I see it, the challenge is how CBSA at headquarters is going to be able to handle the data flow, and by “handle” it, I mean really two things: one, make sense of it, and the other, store it in some systematic way and secure it in some systematic way. I'm sure they have thought that through, but they haven't yet in practise met that full challenge, because they haven't seen the full flow of the data come yet.
The initial testing in phase one suggested that they were pretty capable of handling a relatively limited flow of data back and forth across the land border. Whether they're fully capable of handling both the land border exchanges and the exit air information I think is an important question that I don't have an answer to, but I think it's worth posing to them directly.