Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank the Minister of Finance for requesting the finance committee to undertake this study and for Parliamentary Secretary Saxton for his remarks just now.
Certainly this is an important study that we need to undertake. We have seen in the past that certain organizations here in Canada have undertaken to raise money domestically that has been sent to terrorist organizations abroad. Clearly we need to investigate whether or not additional organizations are doing the same thing.
Certainly within my own community in York Centre, a number of my constituents have come forward to me, and have recommended for a while now that we undertake such a study to determine whether or not organizations are raising money here in Canada to send abroad for use in terrorist activities.
I fully support this motion and I would encourage the opposition members to do the same. It's an important issue for Canada, an important issue in our role to defeat terrorism on the world stage. Given the recent attacks here in Canada, both in Quebec and Ottawa, and on a daily basis we see them in Copenhagen, in Paris, in northern Iraq, and Syria. With the greatest urgency we need to conduct a thorough investigation of the potential for the domestic financing of terrorist organizations abroad.
Thank you.