Public Safety committee  There are 33.

Public Safety committee  That's a good question. I don't know off the top of my head, but I will get that for you.

Public Safety committee  I would be speculating....

Public Safety committee  No, there is a blend. At a big location like Lacolle you will get a very significant commercial throughput. At some of the smaller crossings I think it's fair to say that the commercial throughput is much less but not nil. It varies from crossing to crossing, depending on whether

Public Safety committee  I don't know, off the top of my head.

Public Safety committee  Do you mean in terms of examining crossings and whether they remain open?

Public Safety committee  We have statistics that probably go back two to three years. We certainly keep them on trends in volume and border wait times.

Public Safety committee  We considered approximately four key factors because making our decision. When we looked at the ports of entry we're talking about here, compared to Mr. Davies' example of Kenora, if the nearest port is 10 to 15 kilometres away, that's a much different consideration than one tha

Public Safety committee  In the case of Jamieson's Line, it's about 10 kilometres; in the case of Franklin Centre, it's 16 kilometres; and in the case of Big Beaver, it is about 60 kilometres.

Public Safety committee  In Kenora's case, the nearest point of service is over 200 kilometres away--

Public Safety committee  --so that might have been the reason. There would have been considerable difficulty in terms of proximity to another location.

Public Safety committee  Where they are placed is often a result of either geography or history. Some of these things have been there for decades and decades. Certainly the level of attention we give them and the kinds of services and the kinds of enforcement capabilities that we would put in a location

Public Safety committee  I think there are always two aspects. First is the facilitative service aspect we provide, and that is the ability of Canadians or visitors to Canada to get into Canada in a reasonably easy way. Any time a border location is present and providing that service, there is an enforc

Public Safety committee  Obviously, it stretches the distance between ports that are open, and that would represent a different sort of workload, perhaps an additional workload for my friends in the RCMP. As far as the three ports we're closing, the distances are relatively modest, and I don't think they

Public Safety committee  I have to apologize, Mr. Davies. I'm not immediately familiar with that issue. Cathy, are you familiar with it.