Madam Speaker, with all respect to the parliamentary secretary, he did not answer the question, so I am going to follow up on a different part in the immigration levels plan.
There is a specific line item now for those people who claim asylum from Canada, and the government has put a target. Part of the target is that the people who apply at the Immigration and Refugee Board get approved. Not getting the immigration levels right leads to border disorder.
I want to draw the parliamentary secretary's attention to the following Globe and Mail headline: “Jordanian terror suspect deported from the U.S. had crossed the Canada-U.S. border illegally twice”. The same person applied at the refugee board for asylum over seven years ago, did not get asylum and was able to spend seven years in Canada. Canada Border Services Agency then confirmed that this same terror suspect was facing deportation when he illegally crossed into Washington State.
The minister then claimed that, for privacy reasons, he could not inform Canadians on the details of this particular case regarding how the individual crossed into Canada illegally, failed an asylum claim, was not removed for seven years and then crossed into America before American authorities deported him to Jordan. Can the minister explain which privacy legislation—