It's important. I just want to let you know that this is not a political paper. It's not a critique of Harper or the Conservative government. We are addressing this because you are the government of the hour, and there's no other way for us to express our view and concern. It's indeed very critical of your government because we do have concern.
That being said, you have, I'm sure, a lot of respect for Justice O'Connor and his recommendation in the Maher Arar commission. Clearly, he said that the security officials were incompetent and that there was a pattern of racial profiling and that many of those decisions were directed toward certain groups and a certain community.
There are many reports out there. The OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, released its report about hate crimes recently and targeted these policies and the hate crime in Canada, talking about hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims.
I'm not just coming here to be critical of your government; that's not the purpose. The purpose is to tell you how we feel, and how your government is perceived, and maybe how you can change that perception and those prejudices.