Thank you very much for inviting me to come and address the members of this committee.
I come as a Toronto police officer. I have the unique circumstance of being seconded to the RCMP; I work in their national security program. My background is such that I have worked in the area of terrorism from a municipal perspective since 1995, when we first created a subsection in our intelligence unit that addressed the issues.
I don't have a lot to add to what Assistant Commissioner Malizia has said. I think he certainly addressed it very, very well—reinstating or bringing back these sections of the Criminal Code and the value to law enforcement. I've attended today in the hope of addressing questions that deal with how it would impact municipal policing, and in Toronto specifically, as a Toronto police officer, not in my secondment to the RCMP.
The position of the Toronto Police is that sections of the code will be very useful in our efforts to work with the RCMP in an ongoing relationship and partnership in dealing with national security and the threat of terrorism, both against and towards Canada as well as those who are here, and what we're seeing with the radicalization of those who are looking to go elsewhere to commit terrorist activities or involve themselves with terrorism in other parts of the world.
Again, I thank you, and I look forward to your questions.