Mr. Speaker, I know the hon. member for North Vancouver has similar problems as I have in my riding. We do not live that far apart.
These situations exist. The government knows they exist. When we hear that there are 27,000 people deported who are still in the country, I do not know if the number is right or wrong. I do know that I personally have dealt with well over a dozen and fought every case. Every time I won the case and the refugee application was rejected because of some criminality or something, they skipped and they stayed in the country. It has all been a waste of time. The only ones left behind were the victims.
Of those who have deportation orders who are in this country today, I would hesitate to guess how many are actual terrorists. With that number of 27,000 I can guarantee the number is somewhere above 50 or 100 or whatever. I just do not know.
This issue is serious. I ask the government for the umpteenth time to address that particular issue in the legislation.
I want to mention another thing. I received a rather interesting suggestion from a lady by the name of Julia Milstead:
The idea I had today would take time before it could be implemented, but after the fault of the terrorism is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt (which I'm sure will happen) the frozen assets of the terrorist organizations should be distributed to pay for some of these costs. Part of the punishment for their crimes should surely include retribution, so the terrorists should be paying for these costs as much as possible. I don't know how much of the costs the frozen assets would cover, but I think it only justice that their assets should go completely toward these costs.
It is not a bad idea when we think about it. It has to be worked out. These are the kinds of things the government has to get into, looking at options and alternatives which may well provide better answers and solutions.
I am not saying that the legislation tabled is useless, and I would if I felt that way. I think there is a lot of good in the legislation. The government just has not dealt with one of the critical things which is the people who are still here and who are still mobile. Some of them probably are terrorists who are able to distract, destroy, disrupt our country and the Americans'. Do not forget that the Americans know this just as well as we do. With respect to everything I have said here today, the Americans know what I am talking about.