Mr. Speaker, I agree with the Liberal member that this is a security budget and I want to ask him a question about security.
Let us turn the clock back. When the government came to power in 1993 it wanted to balance the budget. It did balance the budget, but it took funds away from all our security agencies. The RCMP, CSIS, customs and Immigration Canada were all cut back.
I am a member of the immigration committee. We made a field trip to visit the different organizations and ports of entry. We found out that what was called for was in agreement with what the auditor general's 1997 and 2000 reports called for: more human resources and technical resources.
Will the hon. member on the government side account for his government slashing the budgets of our security agencies?