Mr. Minister, to look specifically at CSIS, which you've raised, your plan was to cut $24.5 million, and your government lapsed another $18.2 million, so what we have here is about $43 million in reductions since 2012. In these supplementary estimates you tell me that you're asking for $5.2 million more for CSIS for national security measures, so it seems to me that you must have gone too far if you have to come back and ask for $5.2 million more.
I wonder if that's the result of the kind of thing we saw in testimony before the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence on October 20, when the CSIS deputy director of operations, in speaking about those who've returned from abroad and may have been radicalized and trying to investigate them, said several things. One thing he said was, “We can't devote all our resources to all of them all the time.” He went on to talk about the “limited resources” for monitoring those people.
Again, how does the minister square this $43 million in reduced spending since 2012 with coming here today to ask for another $5.2 million, when his officials have publicly said they didn't have enough to monitor all those who've returned from abroad?