Mr. Speaker, I remind the hon. member that a huge percentage of our claimants are entering Canada from the United States.
Let us face reality. If we want to have open, democratic societies where people move about freely, then there will be people in those societies who try to do it harm. That is not just true of Canada or the United States. It is true of western Europe and other countries.
It was not the Canadian immigration service that issued a visa to Mohammed Atta six months after he flew a plane into the World Trade Center. It was the U.S. INS.