Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Minister Nicholson and colleagues. It's good to see you here again.
Minister, of course I have complete confidence that you and your department have looked at the constitutionality of all the legislation you put forward for our consideration. With that confirmation in mind, I would like to go to the substance of the legislation before us.
Minister, you mentioned in your remarks that this legislation came about as a result of two international conventions in 2005 and that it addresses what is considered to be the continuing threat to international security, nuclear terrorism. I know this is a made-in-Canada piece of legislation. There were 38 recommendations, and we have tailored it to work with our existing Criminal Code provisions.
This is a fairly foundational question. I wonder if you could comment on how you see the threat of nuclear terrorism in Canada and as Canada relates to our international allies?