I thank the honourable member for the question.
Whenever anyone invokes selectivism, my question is. If the Italian police over the past 60 years were not able to fight the Mafia, did it stop the prosecutors of Milan who were assassinated by the Mafia from fighting the Mafia? If there are certain countries that are not respecting...and they are our allies, and we cannot stand up to them—like Turkey—does it justify our not acting against other countries and then it would be a free-for-all? This is fascinating, this kind of relativism. It is, in fact, a fallacy, and I absolutely dispute and contest such a fallacy, not just as a matter of moral principle but as a matter of practicality.
Are we waiting for someone in Port Coquitlam—or me—to be assassinated by the agents of the IRGC? Every now and then I receive all sorts of threats from the goons of the Islamic Republic not only in this country, but also when I was teaching at the University of Manchester, where I did my Ph.D. Are we waiting until then?
Madam, I believe it is time to act and to act with all the resources that we have. At least we could say that we tried to act and failed, and not that we did not try to act and we failed.