If you ask any person who's on duty in security--for example, the head of CSIS--what he needs to make this country safe, invariably the response will be that he needs more power, more authority to do more things, a freer hand.
We've heard grumbling to that effect from the previous head of CSIS recently, but the important thing is, that's what you're going to hear, and it's very hard for politicians to have something happen on their watch and then have that same security official say, “Well, we asked for more power, but you didn't give it to us.”
Who's going to carry the can if something happens? As a result, there's a great pressure to give in to this kind of pressure.