I agree with you, High Commissioner, that hard-working civil servants are certainly trying their best, but when they're having essential tools taken away from them, like having security clearances from countries of origin, we're really taking away tools from them. In this case, I believe it was a tool that could have potentially been used to prevent an alleged terrorist from coming to this country in the first place.
However, your former colleague and the current Minister of Public Safety said that in this case, the system worked as it was supposed to.
The fact is that our immigration system let in an alleged terrorist and ignored at least four risk factor flags. It then later gave him citizenship and gave student visas to two other alleged terrorists.
Do you believe that this is truly how the system is supposed to work?