Mr. Speaker, I want to identify a couple of things that are very important with regard to security and safety. The Harper administration, in 2012, put in a three-year plan, not a one-year plan, to take $143 million out of the CBSA budget, to get rid of frontline workers and others who protected our borders.
This member was also part of the current group that, over a year ago, went line by line through the budget against funding CBSA and its workers. Back in 2012, the union and many other experts identified that guns coming illegally into Canada would come in a more diverse area and at a significant threshold. They said there would be more pornography coming into Canada and that there would be more people entering illegally.
Will the member apologize and own up to the responsibility that Stephen Harper started attacking workers who defend our border every single day? Also, why was the $143 million not restored after they found out it was true that all those things went up because of Harper's cuts?