Mr. Speaker, the member should know that Citizenship and Immigration Canada does not have any legislative authority to open mail. The department does not do that.
It is Customs and Excise Canada that opens mail where it has reasonable grounds to believe that the package contains documents which may be fraudulent. Those are then given to the Department of Citizenship and Immigration as evidence and can be seized under the Immigration Act. That is in the national security interests of Canada and, as I said before, privacy concerns are always paramount.