Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has a responsibility to ensure that Canada's laws are maintained. However, Blacklock’s reported this morning that the Canada Border Services Agency issued a directive entitled, “Export Program Examination Priorities”, stating in part that due to “the limited number of resources available for export examinations; other commodities, including outbound smuggling of narcotics,...should not be undertaken”.
The minister must accept responsibility for this directive. Why is the minister not only condoning but actually authorizing the illegal movement of narcotics across the border?