Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming, Minister, and thank you to the security and policing organization heads as well.
I don't think, Mr. Minister, that any objective observer would believe that a single meeting of this committee in any way constitutes a careful examination of this threat of radicalization in Canada. I don't think one single meeting is enough.
Mr. Chair, as you know, I have a motion on the floor that basically asks for a subcommittee of this committee to call the people who are here before us today to testify, but also to invite other interested and concerned stakeholders from across the country to testify on the extent and consequences of radicalization activities in Canada.
I believe, Mr. Minister, that you mentioned—I didn't catch the name—a group that is also doing some research and that I think that committee should also meet with. I would hope, Mr. Minister, that you would think it's definitely our duty as parliamentarians as well to look further into this issue, and I'd hope that you would encourage your colleagues.
Mr. Chair, I want to bring forward that motion which, I'll inform you now, will be at the start of the next meeting we hold.
I would hope that you could support us in that, Minister.
I will turn to an issue that I think you, Mr. Minister, and your parliamentary secretary have put in the news, and that is the Al Sunnah mosque, as I believe it's called, in Montreal. I have before me a document from the Department of Defence marked “Secret” that was leaked, but it has been in the public domain. It's about the imam who was there. I believe allegations were made that the mosque was a recruiting site.
Given that both you and the parliamentary secretary—and that's been in the public domain for some while through intelligence from the Five Eyes that we cooperate with—can you expand for this committee today on the threats related to that mosque, and secondly, what your has government done on that file?