Mr. Speaker, we always support those bills when they are stand-alone bills, not when they are in omnibus bills.
The government is about to dramatically increase the powers wielded by CSIS and the RCMP, but both organizations are in financially tenuous positions.
The government can pass all the new laws it wants, but they are not worth the paper they are printed on without the staff and resources to enforce them.
Can the minister explain why $1.7 billion of the RCMP's budget went unspent over the past eight years?