Thank you, Chair.
By now, most members of the committee have seen the letter from the Minister of Financeto the committee requesting that we study the issue of terrorist financing, which is a very troubling issue right now.
I recently came back from a NATO conference in Brussels, and terrorist financing was a big part of NATO's main concerns right now. Obviously, if we could make some inroads into stopping financing for terrorist organizations, that would put a major hurdle up for them and stop them from growing and expanding as they have been in recent months and years. That's why this is an issue of priority; it's an issue of priority for the Minister of Finance as well as for our government and therefore, it should also be an issue of priority for the finance committee. I think it's something that Canadians care about and are concerned about and therefore, the Minister of Finance has requested that we study the issue of terrorist financing.
My recommendation is that we begin the study after the second break week in March, which would be Tuesday, March 24. Depending on how many witnesses we're able to secure, we'll decide at a later date how many meetings are dedicated to this study. That being said, I think Mr. Adler wanted to add something.