Public Safety committee  The difficulty in answering that is in speaking strictly of the lookout system. As I was saying, the information that's available to our people when we do screening or when we face one individual comes from different databases. Some of them, for example, are in the immigration database, where we would have flagged them, in the example you gave, as wanted.

Public Safety committee  Do we have a boat?

Public Safety committee  We have very few boats in the organization. The reason is that currently the way we conduct inspections--except in special circumstances where we have concerns, say, about the crew--is that we mainly inspect containers. We need to have special facilities to scan those containers, and when we feel there is a need to open them, we need to have a building in which to empty those containers.

Public Safety committee  If I may correct you, there will be 5,000 armed officers, but most of them will be employees who are already on staff.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. This is a major concern for our organization as well. At the beginning, when we looked into the issue, we naively thought that a short, easy training session of about one week would be enough. But we worked with the Quebec Police Institute in Nicolet and the training centre for departmental employees who use firearms, the DHS in the United States.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. We're planning to arm approximately 5,000 of our officers. They'll be mainly along the land border, but also in marine ports. This will also include some of our officers who have to conduct investigations inland. The plan to deploy those armed officers, as the minister said, will start at the border crossings that are most important to us, where the volume of traffic is the highest.