Foreign Affairs committee  The point is, what was not anticipated was how the Arab world would react and also how the west would react.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm glad you picked up on the idea of containment. The issue here, in a very short space of time, is that the Arab Muslim world and the region where ISIL is, at the heart and the core of the Arab Muslim world, is in huge, immense historical turmoil. There are all sorts of cross-c

Foreign Affairs committee  With regard to the solution, the containment idea is that we cannot change the direction of this war that is going on inside the Arab Muslim world. They have to work it out. This is their problem. What was containment in 1947-48 when the Berlin blockade took place? We couldn't go

Foreign Affairs committee  The short answer is yes. A great many mosques right across Canada, North America, and Europe are basically the incubators of political Islam. They support, in a sense, the values that ISIL represents.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman and honourable members, I want to begin by thanking you for inviting me to speak to you as a Canadian who happens to be a Muslim. As an academic with a focus on international relations studies and area studies of the Middle East and south and southwest Asia, I have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree with you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do not fully understand what you mean by “stream”, but simply, common sense tells us that there are areas in the world, source origins, that are greatly problematic and that do concern us in terms of the threat they bring to Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree with that, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What amazes me is that any regular bank would track me down, in any part of the world, if I had defaulted on their payments, and here we as a country cannot track down and keep track of people who are willing to exploit our system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam James—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, to give a very quick answer we'd be generalizing, but in terms of generalizing, yes, there's a huge problem of culture and history that we are dealing with when it comes to immigration from Muslim countries and adapting to a society like Canada's.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We need more of it, and I understand that we are cutting back on our border security forces. There's the problem—trying to match our economic resources to the need. It's simple Economics 101. Our needs are greater than what we can supply them with.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. Please go ahead.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not necessarily.