Mr. Speaker, those are total budget dollars. The minister neglected to talk about the reduction over the last four years in CSIS.
In 1999 a special Senate committee on security and intelligence stated that Canada still remained a venue of opportunity for terrorist groups, but in that period the government saw it necessary to reduce CSIS funding, to starve the RCMP out of effectiveness and to eliminate the ports police.
How does the solicitor general defend those kinds of reductions or even have the gall to brag about it?