Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, gentlemen, for coming.
Actually, I would like to follow up on the question and comment of my colleague Lois Brown.
Many of the questions you've had so far have dealt with what's happening in Sri Lanka, and of course that is extremely important. But I'd like to talk about what is happening right here in Canada. I've heard from several of you, and of course I'd heard about this before, and I'd like to hear from you very specifically what you see as strong federal government intervention in terms of the threats, both physical and verbal, that the community is receiving throughout Canada.
You're not necessarily the only group that is being affected by this. What we have seen as an unfortunate consequence of immigration—and I say “unfortunate” because I've been working in immigration for years—is the fact that in certain groups what we see is an offshoot of the immigrant group that is very concerned about what is going on in the home country, to the detriment of what is going on here in Canada. It spends all its energy working on what is going on in their country of origin. So there's a fine line for us that has to be made for us Canadians, and particularly for members of government, between respecting under our multiculturalism the religion, the origins, and the language of people who have arrived—which of course we want to do—but at the same time making sure that the integration into the Canadian social fabric goes on.
It seems to me that what some groups are doing is crossing that line—and I'm not naming any groups on purpose, and they're minorities, I know, but they're a very strong minority in the Sri Lankan community in Canada. They are spending a lot of time, energy, and money, and very often illegally.
So the question I am asking of you is this. What can we as a government do? And I'd like you to be as concrete as possible in your reply, please. I don't know who I'm addressing the question to. Perhaps Mr. Ratnamalala, first, and perhaps Mr. Nizam would want to add something later on. I have a very short time, so I'll ask you to be very short.