Mr. Speaker, the hon. member in his remarks seemed to equate law enforcement with the arrest and conviction of criminal smugglers.
I want to ask him whether he thinks it is a more effective type of enforcement where the measures taken deter or prevent the smuggling from occurring in the first place. It seems to me that is the type of enforcement that we have encouraged with the broad range of measures which he seems to support. In other words, through increased resources to the RCMP and to customs agents, increased by lowering the price of the cigarettes, by a wide range of measures that is in the program, we are deterring continued smuggling at the level that it was at.
I want to ask the member if that is not a better type of enforcement than having the crime take place and then attempting to arrest the person after the fact?