Yes, one of the things we have to bear in mind—you're quite right—is that CSIS was created in 1984 when the intelligence activities were removed from the RCMP, the old security service. What was not removed from them, and never was removed, was their responsibility to do the criminal investigations of crimes arising from threats to the security of Canada. As a matter of fact, in 1984, when the CSIS Act was passed, at the same time, the Security Offences Act was passed. The Security Offences Act—and I think I've provided a copy of it to committee members—says in section 6 that the RCMP has the “primary responsibility” to investigate criminal activities arising from threats to the security of Canada as defined in section 2 of the CSIS Act, which would include counterterrorism.
So bear in mind that they've always had a role. The only thing we had before is that you would have manslaughter charges, or counterfeit charges, forgery charges, whatever they might be, flowing out of terrorist activities. We've had terrorist acts right in the streets of Ottawa, attacks on the Turkish embassy, and things of that nature, and they were investigated by the RCMP as criminal activities.
What happened with Bill C-36 in 2001 is that there was a new class. We created a brand-new label where we could call some—