Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question deals with the enforcement aspect, so I'll direct it to Assistant Commissioner Malizia.
Assistant Commissioner, our Conservative government has recently announced that counterterrorism strategy asserts as one of the six fundamental principles that terrorism is a crime that will be prosecuted. The deny element of this strategy aims to deny terrorists the means and the opportunity to carry out their activities. I know you know that.
A key objective of this strategy is to disrupt the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. Do you think that Bill S-9 would strengthen law enforcement's ability to meet this important objective by specifying that actions associated with possessing, using, transporting, exporting, importing, altering, or disposing of nuclear or radioactive materials will be deemed a serious crime with severe penalties?