Madam Chair, as you know, there are a certain number of official ports of entry in Canada, ports of entry that were designated and established in partnership with the United States.
I think the Conservatives' idea of designating the entire 9,000-kilometre border as an official crossing is completely ridiculous, particularly since we know that it would require an enormous amount of additional resources and would be practically impossible to do. We know that the Conservatives made over $400 million in cuts to those resources and now all of a sudden they want us to put more resources into the border. Their idea is completely ridiculous.
What we want is to have the resources needed to deal with cases of irregular border crossers as quickly as possible.