As Canada decides on its next prime minister, Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council Sebestian Gorka said Monday that there is "disturbing intelligence data" about illicit drugs coming over the northern border.

"We have some very, very disturbing data...intelligence data in terms of not just non-state actors and the smuggling of illicit, deadly drugs across the northern border, but also state actors from bad countries who are inserting their operatives into our country across that border as well," Gorka said on the Monday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

This statement from Gorka comes the same day Canada holds an election for a new prime minister.

Voters in Canada are voting on whether to extend the Liberal Party's rule by keeping Prime Minister Mark Carney in power or instead to elect Pierre Poilievre the leader of the Conservative Party.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned in January, leading to Carney becoming prime minister. 

Gorka said he hopes Canada elects a prime minister who takes illegal immigration seriously.

"We may be a giant nation the size of the continent, but we have borders to the south and to the north," Gorka said. "So hopefully we'll have an administration in our northern neighbor that takes illegal immigration and the exploitation of their territory as seriously as Tom Homan, Governor Noem, and Stephen Miller do here in the Trump administration."