Thank you.
I support that. I think we've seen that the Canadian public has a lot of interest in and a lot of concern about this. We see it in the public opinion polls. We see it in the fact that 72% of Canadians want a public inquiry. They want these issues aired. They're very concerned that the government is going to completely get on top of this and not leave it to some superficial kind of process.
Further, I think there's a lot of merit to the literacy of cabinet on these issues because we need a national security committee of cabinet to have the Prime Minister and ministers around the table discussing these issues collectively on a regular basis, with regular briefings for all of them on CSIS-related intelligence. This is important because they're going to be dealing in cabinet with all the economic opportunities. There are also risks and we're seeing the risks now in this interference.
I attended cabinet committee meetings for five years every week, and the dynamic you see around the table is really important. It's built over months and years of collaboration on these kinds of issues. I think it's sad that we haven't had one up until now. This is an opportunity to introduce one.
There was a suggestion by Mr. Johnston that it would be a committee instead of the national security and intelligence adviser, and I strongly disagree with that. It's both that we need.