Mr. Speaker, the minister has talked about the hundreds of millions of dollars the government has spent on illegal border crossers, yet from January to August in 2017 the numbers were 13,221; while from January to August of this year, it was 14,125. The problem is getting worse.
There is only one way this is going to get solved, and that is by closing the loophole in the safe third country agreement.
Has the minister done anything of import, such as asking the Americans to close the loophole in this agreement?