The precise nature of the statement was that I'm concerned that, when hard-pressed, we have a tendency in Canada to err on the side of individual freedoms, civil liberties, and privacy rather than on the side of public safety and security for Canadian society as a whole.
I would suggest that some of our allies have perhaps struck what I might term a bit more of a mature balance, because they have had to live with the phenomenon of terrorism much longer than we have. We need to recognize that there are certain collective obligations that the government has, and that, given the nature of the security environment in which we live, when forced to make a choice between the two, I would err on the side of peace, order, and good government rather than the side of necessarily protecting itemized individual civil rights and privileges if, as a result, the life, liberty, equality, and justice of Canadians and Canadian society as a whole may be called into question.