Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, colleague.
A special welcome to Ward Elcock, a fellow Osgoode grad. Thanks for your help in keeping the peace in the 2010 Winter Olympics, much of which were in the riding that I have the honour to represent.
The NDP this afternoon, through my colleague Ms. Sims, raised the straw man of “prison-building agenda”, as she said. I think that's characteristic of many of the issues that have been brought up. We've heard that time and time again in the House, and in fact no prisons have been built by this government, nor are there any planned.
Much of what is being objected to, in my assessment, falls into a similar category. We have serious intelligence concerns that you have raised.
Admiral Loren, you've talked about consolidating different branches in the U.S. experience in order to be more sophisticated. Our own minister came here and said, frankly, we're not prepared for the kind of mass arrivals that we have seen in recent times.
I'll address my first question to you, Mr. Perchal. Are we correlating our information on gang behaviour, criminal activity, with foreign intelligence on terrorism so that we can identify some nexus there—the word “nexus” has been used several times—for instance in the case of a country like Iran?