Yes, right. Members across say hire as many as you need. The deficit reduction bunch across the way say yes, hire as many as you need.
Do you know how many police officers it would take to patrol the Canada-U.S. border if you had one per kilometre? It would take around 6,000 of them three shifts a day, seven days a week, just to patrol the border if you had one every kilometre. That is how idiotic that kind of a solution to the problem is. No, that was not the solution.
A letter signed by the person in charge of the RCMP, Norman Inkster, was tabled in the House. It stated that it was not the solution and that there was only one solution left. Two years before perhaps there could have been other solutions, but it was too late. Now we had to take the drastic action taken by the Prime Minister.
On behalf of all of my constituents, those who lived through that sad period of time, those who had their lives threatened and those people who are no longer with us because they were killed in the process, I want to thank the government for doing the right thing.