Yes. You've made a very good point.
Very often, in discussions, everyone refers to 9/11. But Mr. MacKenzie, you're quite correct. The recent Air India report underscores the fact that this country was targeted for terrorist activity, major terrorist activity, years before September 11, 2001. And again, in terms of our response, we have to have tools like the tools you have before you.
As I say, it's not just your government or me or the Prime Minister who believes this. There's widespread support to get these tools on the books. They were written by the previous government, who knew and understood that we had to have these tools on the books. Law enforcement agencies support them. We have received judicial approval for part of these particular proposals that we have.
It's my hope, and certainly the hope of everybody, that we don't have to use these. Of course, I would hope that would be the case, but we live in a world that is subject to terrorist activity. No country is immune from it. The laws have to be on the books.
I asked people who were looking at this to check what other major democracies were doing, that they would came back and say, yes, the Canadian approach is very reasonable. Those safeguards are very important; they're very reasonable as well, and this is exactly the kind of legislation we have to have on the books in Canada to protect Canadians.