Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to thank all of the presenters here today. As someone new to this committee and new to a lot of the intricate details of not only what happened to these four individuals but also to the Canadian government response, or lack thereof, despite the strong recommendations--it's quite a shock--I think all Canadians who are exposed to these details have to be questioning how it is that our government hasn't done what's necessary to restore confidence.
It seems to me there are at least two or three overriding questions that need to be answered, and perhaps you can help us. We've seen the model proposed by Justice O'Connor as a solution recognizing that the SIRC model seems to be acceptable for oversight of the RCMP, although SIRC, as Mr. Allmand says and Justice O'Connor says, ought to be given authority over other agencies. Is that SIRC model for oversight of a particular agency acceptable, or are there problems with that as well? I say that knowing that perhaps an oversight body is not going to solve all the problems, because Mr. Kafieh is talking about CSIS doing things with the flimsiest of evidence and going after people despite the fact that we do have a SIRC oversight body in place with regard to CSIS. So I'm wondering if oversight is going to solve all our problems. Or do we have other problems that need to go beyond that?
Would anyone care to respond to that?