Thank you, Chair.
There are a lot of absolutes being thrown around and I just want to maybe bring us back to the fact that, as a committee, we're trying to make recommendations to government as to what we should be doing. I want to go back to a question my colleague asked a previous guest witness on our obligations from the United Nations Security Council resolutions 2170 and 2178, which aren't often talked about. It's basically on financing and on our role to deal with radicalization here.
I'm hearing from witnesses that we should be looking at where money is coming from here in Canada and being sent abroad and making sure that we're doing our job. That's fine. I'm also a little confused though because I appreciate what, Mr. Fatah, you're saying about going to certain people and not others.
Just for the record, you probably know this, but we have members of our caucus who are Muslim women and who, whatever you want to call it, I forget how you're putting it, look like you or your daughters and whatnot. I think we should be careful not to over-stereotype because there are people who are.... It's a diversity and the community is diverse. I do understand your concern about who we confer with but I also want to put on the record that we have people who happen to be members of Parliament, doctors, lawyers, etc., and Muslims, just like myself as a politician who happens to be a Catholic.
It should not be the ultimate focus but it should be something that we connect with to help us understand how to deal with various communities where people are involved. So I'm not sure.... I take exception and I'll put aside your ideas on immigration. I do have concerns about Saudi Arabia, and it's on the record, in terms of us selling arms to them.
But when it comes to actually dealing with and taking on our responsibility, do you not believe that there has to be some engagement with religious communities and mosques to connect with the very people who we're concerned about being radicalized? The RCMP has a list. We know that. We also want to make sure that the list isn't going to grow. In fact, we want to make sure that if anything that list is going to eventually be zero. But at the end of the day how do we connect with people who we are concerned are being radicalized if we're not actually engaged with faith leaders?