Thank you for your question.
As you know, as a country, like many western countries, we are moving forward with the listing of terrorist entities. The reason we are doing that is multi-purpose. Here I may let Mr. Coulombe comment.
The first one is clearly to deter and cut any source of funding, because some of those terrorist entities were using supposedly noble causes to channel funding to be used for terrorism purposes. We need to inform Canadians that those entities are terrorist, that they don't share Canadian values, and that they are willing to use violence to attain their means. So the listing of terrorist entities is cutting their funding and enabling our law enforcement to keep track of those involved in those activities. It also makes it an illegal and criminal offence to be involved in any way with those organizations.
That's why we've lately listed the Islamic State. They were coming somewhat out of another entity that was already listed, but we felt the need, since they were distinct, to list them separately. We also listed other entities.
Wherever there are terrorist entities, we are tracking them. In order to protect Canadians, we are always monitoring the groups that could represent a threat.