Mr. Speaker, yesterday, during the television program Le Point , the CBC said that Canada is, in the eyes of criminal smugglers, the one country where it is easiest to bypass immigration laws.
That alarm has also been raised by the Canadian security intelligence service since 1997 in its annual reports, where it points out that the smuggling of illegal immigrants has been increasing because of the relatively minor penalties imposed on those found guilty of that offence.
Will the government admit that, as things now stand, our Canadian laws are totally powerless to eliminate the smuggling of illegal immigrants, and that this is shameful?