Thank you, High Commissioner.
I have here the terrorist screening dataset encounters data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It shows that in 2023, there were 484 matches on the U.S. terrorist watch-list at land ports of entry along the Canada-U.S. border. So far in fiscal year 2024, there have been 321 of these encounters. Since 2017, these numbers have gone up 123%.
I think you'd agree, High Commissioner, that next to our relationship with Great Britain, our relationship with the United States is a privileged one, and it's one of our most important relationships. Are you at all concerned, with this skyrocketing number of terrorist encounters the U.S. government is reporting, that we're at any risk and that the U.S. government is taking this seriously?