Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both of the witnesses.
I want to very briefly summarize that the deputy commissioner for the RCMP was testifying last session, and it was pretty clear that he saw a connection between the new “leaving the country” offence, where you'd leave, or attempt to leave, with the intent to commit a series of potential terrorist offences, and the new “recognizance with conditions” provisions in this bill.
Just to put you on the spot a bit, I'm wondering what would be wrong with this. When you have a system where you actually know that young people in particular are leaving, and they have this intention—you have good evidence, not intelligence evidence but evidence that can be used in court—rather than going to a prosecuting stage, with all of its implications, with the kinds of concerns we have about criminal records in terms of what good they do in the end, what we do instead is we go into a recognizance-with-conditions mode and put conditions, which might even include taking their passport away for 12 months, and we have a cooling-down period.
I'm reading between the lines in the testimony of the deputy commissioner, and I'm just wondering what you would think about that.