Before we go back to Mr. Sweet, who tells me he has one last question, I want to ask a further one relating to the definition you have provided from United States law on what qualifies as a terrorist organization.
Under Canada's Criminal Code, we use the term “terrorist entity” to take into account both organizations and less formally organized groups. I wanted to ask you--and I can guess what your answer will be, but I'd like it for the record--whether you think they fit this definition or not. To list a group as terrorist the government has to state that there are reasonable grounds to believe that:
(a) the entity has knowingly carried out, attempted to carry out, participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity; or
(b) the entity is knowingly acting on behalf of, at the direction of or in association with an entity referred in paragraph (a).