That's interesting, because when we hear about the amounts that have been—or will be—invested by the government, it's as if we are expecting that, magically, there will be more border services officers and that the entire problem will be solved. However, what you are saying is that, in fact, there is a lack of equipment, space and training. This information is based on an audit report that the agency itself recently published. I'll come back to that later.
I don't necessarily want to play politics, but I found it peculiar to hear my Conservative colleagues say that they felt there was an easy solution. They're proposing to buy 24 scanning devices that would inspect 154 containers per hour, or one million containers per year. In actual fact, the number of containers that leave the Port of Montreal each year is between 500,000 and 800,000 at most.
Were these figures pulled out of a hat? Is it realistic to think that 24 scanning devices will solve the problem? The Conservative Party mentioned 75 new officers, 30 of them at the Port of Montreal, and the fact that anything coming out of the port could be scanned, which would solve the problem. How realistic is that?
You also have to consider that cars that have not necessarily been stolen and that are intended for export could end up in containers. How can we sort all this out and propose serious solutions?