Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The committee is really getting ahead of itself. We've really gone off the topic here.
The Criminal Code, in existing section 83.01, has a very exhaustive definition of “terrorist activity”. There are 11 paragraphs that fall under section 83.01, and I'll just read one of them. There is some concern, if I'm understanding my friends on the other side of the table correctly, that the 9/11 attacks somehow would not be captured by this bill, and I think they're right, but what they're missing is that it's already covered by section 83.01 of the Criminal Code.
One of the current definitions of “terrorist activity” is in subparagraph 83.01(1)(a)(ii):
the offences referred to in subsection 7(2) that implement the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on September 23, 1971,
If my friends on the other side of the table are having trouble understanding that we're trying to make sure that “terrorist activity” includes suicide bombing, that is what this amendment is meant to do. That's not the exhaustive definition of “terrorist activity”; that's in addition to the 11 paragraphs that are currently contained in section 83.01.
For those reasons and the reasons outlined by Mr. Woodworth, we need to vote against Mr. Ménard's proposed amendment. If there is some concern about the difference between the French and English translations, the committee should accept my solution and amend the French version to make it narrower.
Thank you.