Thank you for your question.
Given the complexity of the issue, I'll respond in English, in order to be as clear as possible.
In terms of whether the CBSA has the financial ability to hire a thousand more officers, that would not be for me to answer. What I can say is that the system of hiring that's in place now is very different from what it was a few years ago, and it makes it much harder to get those recruits through the program.
They've doubled the length of the program, and recruits are no longer paid to go through the program. Recruits, rather than going back to the region they were hired from, are now sent anywhere across the country, to eventually then try to get deployed back to where it is they came from. When you present that to someone as a career path, for instance—“come work for me for free for 18 weeks and you'll have a job, but we're going to send you anywhere we want to across the country”—it's far less attractive than what it was previously.
It's all that extra time to get them through to be full border services officers who are able to be on the ground and working.