Madam Speaker, I am interested in the comments of my colleague. A couple of issues that I face on a daily basis living in Nova Scotia and representing Dartmouth deal with the cuts that have occurred to our coast guard.
We are now seeing a coast guard that is so underfunded that it does not have the capacity to do any of the basic functions that it traditionally has done. We have also seen the elimination of the ports police. What was an important strategic security function for our country has now disappeared. This is at a time when we see a government that apparently is trying to bolster security and a sense of surveillance on our coasts. Here we have two important institutions that have been decimated or eliminated.
I would like to ask the member for Churchill where she feels these two important functions are now in terms of the bill before us?