The solicitor general wants me to bring up the drug busts. If I brought up the drug busts I could assure him they are minor compared to the amounts of drugs that are sold to our children. They are very minor indeed.
In Vancouver, the Province newspaper has confirmed that the RCMP has listed Stanley Ho as the lead member of the triad organized crime group since 1991. Despite this, Ho has received multiple visitor visas, has extensive holdings in Canada, is a donor, personally and corporately, to the Liberal Party, and has actually hosted a cocktail reception for the Prime Minister during the Vancouver APEC conference. That information was in the paper and I trust it to be accurate.
I am in no way suggesting that there is an attachment. What I am suggesting is that known organized crime agents are entering and leaving this country on a regular basis. The government knows that and I know the immigration department knows that. The only thing that happens is that the criminals get caught in a legal wrangle, in appeal after appeal, if they even are asked to be deported. It is not working.
No legislation has been mentioned by the immigration minister. The justice minister and the solicitor general are here. The immigration minister should also be standing up in the House to say that we have some problems and that we need some legislation but that has not been done. The finance minister or the revenue minister should be standing up in the House saying “Under the Income Tax Act we should make it easier to seize assets and sell them”. It is just not two people in this. The whole government has to sit down and look at this situation. It is not sending two, three or four people to Quebec. It is a lot bigger than that.
I recognize what the provincial and territorial justice ministers are saying, but that is not the point. The point is that I do not think the government is co-ordinated in its effort. It is futile in my mind to take a section out of the criminal code, section 467.1, and make an adjustment to it in the hope that this will all go away. It is a lot bigger than that.