Thank you. I appreciate that.
With my knowledge of immigration, the procedures are already known. In fact, your department has provided a list of how the procedures are undertaken.
To me, it's very clear that if you can follow the trail over the last number of years, you should be able to determine how it is, for example, that we weren't able to determine that there was a 2015 ISIS video in which one of the alleged terrorists was dismembering a prisoner. Back in 2015, that was circulating on the Internet, yet, three years later, he gained entry to Canada and, in fact, went through six different immigration streams since that time and ultimately gained Canadian citizenship. In that time, there were four red flags flagged for that individual. Three of them were risk indicators. Obviously, none of them were taken seriously, or not to the extent that he was not allowed to continue down the immigration stream.
What I did find interesting, though, Minister, is that in 2018 your government removed the requirement for police background checks—officially called “police clearance certificates”—from the country of origin, from countries like Pakistan. Pakistan ultimately is a bit of a high-risk country, to say the least, and it's puzzling that this was done in 2018. This security check was removed, and now we know that a student visa holder from Pakistan gained entry into Canada.
Have you reinstated this security requirement, for example? That is an easy step that you could have taken by now.