Thank you all very much for being here.
I certainly remember you, Ms. Basnicki, from last year when we were debating Bill C-10 before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Being an MP from B.C., I'm very aware of the Air India tragedy.
I find it also very helpful in these deliberations that you as a panel represent terrorism that has reached out and taken Canadian lives, but actually in different ways and from different sources. We tend to hear a lot these days about militant Islamist radicals and the radicalization for jihadist reasons of some of our youth. But I think the Air India tragedy has to continue to remind us that sometimes the politics of other places in the world come home here, and there are effects here. Our heartfelt sympathies continue to go out to you all. Tragedy is something that follows one’s whole life. It's not something you get over; it's something you learn to cope with.
I am interested in having a comment from all of you on this. Would you agree with me that terrorism in our world remains a threat to our national security here in Canada, that right now, in this present time, it is a continuing and present threat?