Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her question, which as always is very pertinent.
In the case of Air India, the commissioner lamented the fact that the RCMP had a problem with accountability. However, there is also the problem of funding, or should I say underfunding. The RCMP delivers the witness protection program, but passes the bill for it on to the municipalities, which are already overwhelmed.
In my riding, there are about 40 small municipalities. I know that they work very hard to balance their budgets and they are unable to do so because of this kind of thing.
In addition, because my riding borders on Vermont, I know that a pilot project is being carried out to replace border services officers with automated crossings.
This is not something that is going to solve the crime problem in Quebec and in Canada.