Mr. Chair, I think the minister answered that question already. The government does not intend to have a monitoring system. The minister said this is like any other criminal offence. Information comes to the attention of the police; upon further investigation, if the police have reasonable and probable grounds to believe that a person is about to commit an offence or will commit an offence, then they are entitled to arrest the individual.
Their source of information, as the minister indicated, may be parents indicating to the authorities that one of their children intends to leave the country. It could be other people in the community who are aware that youth in the community have been radicalized and that they intend to leave the country to be trained, or even worse, to actually join a terrorist group in a foreign country.
The minister indicated that Canadians would be very upset with the government if the government were to say, “Yes, we knew, and we suspected these youth were going to leave the country, but we had no power to stop them.” Then the kids go off and get killed. There would be some very upset Canadian families if that were the case.