Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Burt, I would like to talk about cooperation with the Coast Guard when it comes to terrorist activities.
We know that the coastal marine security operations centres, in Halifax and Esquimalt, analyze the various threats, and the Royal Canadian Navy oversees the operations.
If there is a maritime threat and a ship with terrorists on board arrives along our coasts, the Coast Guard will be the first to intervene. However, it may be too big a threat for the Coast Guard's resources. At that point, the Canadian Forces, in the form of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Special Forces, will have to intervene, in that kind of situation.
In the last two or three years, have there been any terrorist threats by sea, near Canadian coasts, that have called for intervention by the Coast Guard or the Royal Canadian Navy?