Thank you, Chair.
My colleague's comments are noted and appreciated.
If I may, perhaps I could substitute my humble view for the officials' for the benefit of Ms. Lattanzio. At least in my view, counselling a terrorism offence is already in the Criminal Code. Promoting is not. Promoting does not come to the level of counselling. We clearly see a gap with respect to the wilful element and the mens rea. We're talking about speech. I am open to Mr. Housefather's suggestion that we don't need to go there. At the same time, I would hate it if this provision were struck down a block west of here.
Finally, with respect to the scope, I would say.... Look, you have to look at the spirit of the bill. You're talking not just about hatred but about terrorism and terrorist symbols within a hate speech section of the Criminal Code. I would think that this would work by extension. However, in the interest of saving the committee some time, I would think, Chair, that it would be advisable if we briefly suspended to allow for a conversation between my friend and me.
Thank you.