Thank you to all the witnesses for coming.
The hearings, especially tonight, are almost the two solitudes, if I can put it that way. Mr. Davies, you said that the danger and the threats to lives are real. I agree with you. I think there is a real threat out there. I think it has increased more greatly than we have seen it since 9/11, and it is in a different context. I also have to express with Mr. Anderson, Ms. Pillay, and Ms. Fournier that their concerns in some of the areas that this bill is moving into are real too. How do we connect the two? That's my question for all of you.
I've been saying that we need oversight, we need sunset clauses, and we need a statutory, mandatory review for this legislation in three years. Threats ebb and flow. We certainly need amendments. Everyone's concern expressed here is real. The parliamentary secretary may say that some of the things the demonstrators and protesters out there are saying are exaggerated. They may be. I've been in protests. I faced the protests in my position in P.E.I. and I firmly believe that legitimate dissent in a democracy is healthy. That's a good thing.
My question for each of the spokesmen is, how do we bring those two solitudes together? I believe we need certain aspects of the bill, but I believe it can be fixed and can be a bill that Canadians could welcome if this committee is allowed to operate the way the founding fathers designed Parliament to operate, to amend a bill and make it better.
Could I have a response from each of you?