Madam Speaker, I can hear them heckling over there because they know I am right. They practise their rhymes and not their policies. On something as serious as our border safety, one would think they would spend a significant amount of time coming up with policies, but that does not fit into their leader's gold star program of the school of Dr. Seuss for opposition parties. While Conservatives go to that school, we are investing in the RCMP. We invested in the CBSA and the number of CBSA employees has increased.
The minister and the Prime Minister have acknowledged that if we need to do more on the border, we will. We are committed to making sure we are securing our border, but also protecting Canadians from illicit drugs, weapons and the things we have talked about, like auto theft. The member who spoke right before me talked about scanners at the border. Funnily enough, it was Stephen Harper's government that removed the scanner in Brampton dealing with auto theft, and we reinstated it. Then the Conservatives stand up and say, “We have an idea: scanners.”
The Conservatives have no plan. They come after the fact, when we have already made the investments, and then try to take these ideas for their own because, once again, they have spent a little too much time at the Dr. Seuss opposition school for rhymes.
Part of our investment has led to very real success stories as a result of the RCMP and its good work. I was on the finance committee, on one of my first budgets as a member in this place, and one of the things we heard, as we were reinstating some of these budgets and officials were coming forward, was not only that those cuts were impactful on the actual day-to-day work, but that when those sorts of specialized services are cut, as Conservatives did in dealing with organized crime, violent crime and transnational-type imports, we also lose institutional knowledge and enforcement.
One result of our investment, for example, was that over 95 million lethal doses of fentanyl and a lab were seized by the RCMP. When we invest in the police and do not make cuts, like Conservatives do, we actually get results. When we invest in the CBSA, we get more secure borders. However, when people rhyme and just talk tough, they get a leader who is all fake image and no substance.
We are going to keep making those investments because that is what is right for Canadians, and that is what is going to keep our community safe, not just talk.