Let's just say that we've gone from almost zero capability to considerable capability, and now back to something perhaps a little less than perfect. I guess, from a security practitioner and not from somebody, of course.... I would take Ms Vonn's points on that. You really have to be careful about this.
I'll share a quick anecdote. I was posted to the Middle East in the early 2000s. Suddenly one of the employees at the embassy came to me and said, “You know, there's a Canadian passport”—we had lots of serial losers of passports—“that has popped up in five different countries in the last six months, it seems, because we're getting reports, yet that person is supposedly still living in this country.” I said, “Okay, can I get their name?” He said, “Can't do that, sorry.”
Anyhow, we ended up having a long debate. It escalated up to the ambassador and all the way back to Foreign Affairs and CSIS, and I don't know if it ever got resolved. To me that was the worst example of how things used to be. We can never go back to that, because the lives of Canadians would be put at risk.