Thank you.
I'll turn now to the CBSA.
Ms. O'Gorman, we're hearing concerns raised from Mr. Weber, the union president for our border agents, that the issue of the crossing, whether northward or southward, is between the ports of entry. You are limited in your jurisdiction to do that. The RCMP has outlined that there's not any immediate plan to redeploy RCMP resources between the ports of entry to stop the influx into the U.S. from Canada, which is the primary concern of the incoming American administration.
What discussions have you had with the RCMP, if any, to expand your jurisdiction and expand the mandate of the CBSA to fill some of those gaps between ports of entry? Has there been any discussion?
I'll point out that it's been 20 days since the new border czar, Tom Homan, flagged this as a major issue that he's going to have with Canada and indicated that this was going to be a problem.
Over a week ago, President-elect Trump announced tariffs that will do very frightening things to our economy. I'm just not getting a sense that there's any immediate action to deploy any new resources from the RCMP or the CBSA between the ports of entry, which is the issue with the Americans right now. I'm concerned about that.
Can you comment?
