I'm not an expert on border controls. I defend those charged with firearms importation offences. You're right that it's a very difficult problem. One of the benefits that we have of having a generally friendly southern neighbour and having enormous amounts of cross-border trade and transportation is that it may [Technical difficulty—Editor] potential. Just as drugs enter this country illegally every day, firearms do as well.
Enforcement is obviously important in terms of protecting our borders, but we really need to look at the root causes of crime. These handguns are ending up in the hands of people who have decided—I use that word loosely—to engage in criminal behaviour. They've decided that the profit to be made in drug trafficking, and protecting that drug trafficking, is bigger than the potential they see in participating in a pro-social way in Canadian society. That's an enormous problem.
It's a really difficult problem, and it's one that is never going to be solved by more police officers on the street or by more border guards at the border. It is solved by the type of social development policy issues that are far beyond my ken but that I know are key to addressing the causes of gun crime, as opposed to simply its symptoms.