Mr. Speaker, they say that when the only tool that one has is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. That is exactly the Conservatives' approach to criminal justice and drug policy. Their arguments are so full of logical fallacies, it is laughable. They cherry-pick the data. They make use of straw man arguments, and when we dare challenge them, it is all ad hominem attacks from them.
The laughable part of this motion today is about putting more boots on the ground at our ports to stop fentanyl and its ingredients from coming into our country. It is laughable because the Customs and Immigration Union president, Mark Weber, is the one who has identified publicly that the CBSA today is still trying to recover from the deficits launched by the Stephen Harper government nine years ago.
With that in mind, and to clear up the obvious disinformation from the Conservatives, I am prepared to move an amendment. I move that the motion be amended by replacing the words “reverse Liberal Bill C-5”, with the words “hire the 1,100—