Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
You had mentioned that you had been advised regarding Maher Arar that he was a “person of interest”. My question is, do you not believe that a Minister of Public Security in a post-9/11 universe, whoever that minister would be, should have been advised that the RCMP considered Maher Arar, or any other person who they might have had such views of, to be an Islamic extremist associated with al-Qaeda? Should not this be the kind of information that would be normally conveyed to a Minister of Public Security?