Mr. Mansur, we heard from other witnesses about the need to modernize the tools and capabilities that we provide to our national security agencies.
I'm going to read something that appeared in the National Post, from a criminal prosecutor for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. He talks about the separation between CSIS and the RCMP, done at a time when cellphones were a luxury, the Internet didn't exist, and Canada had never been the target of a terror attack, and when that separation had made sense. He said:
It does not make sense any longer. Virtually all of Canada's allied countries give their spy agencies powers to prevent terror attacks. Requiring CSIS to report their findings to the police, who then review that evidence and decide what to do with it, adds layers of unnecessary bureaucracy to their investigations. Worse, it causes delay—and in a time when terror suspects can co-ordinate across continents in a matter of seconds, that can mean the difference between prevention and a successful attack against Canada.
Do you agree with these concerns that this prosecutor wrote in this letter to the editor?