Madam Speaker, I would just ask members to look at the public accounts from the time. Conservatives were investing in our border. We were supporting our border agencies and giving them the technologies and the support they needed.
However, I think it is also somewhat of a simplistic solution to say that we need to hire more people. Of course if there are people who are ready and willing to do the job, then we need to give them an opportunity to do the job, but we are facing a recruitment and retention crisis across this country in the military, in the RCMP and at CBSA.
We do not need simplistic slogans about how we are just going to hire 2,000 more people to fill jobs. We need actual solutions that are going to result in better recruitment and more retention. We also need force multipliers to give those people who are continuing to work all the tools they need to complete the job so they can do the job that two people, three people or four people did previously. That is a solution we need, as well as hiring new people.