In terms of providing additional tools, I'm fully supportive. I've worked with the police quite extensively and know them very well. We continually talk about hate crime and hate crime legislation, and try to press charges for various hate speech incidences. I mentioned Al-Quds Day, where we have tried to push forward charges because we felt that it's quite disconcerting for someone to stand up at a rally and preach hatred towards the Jewish community and to threaten to go on a shooting spree in Israel, which is exactly what was done.
We've had interaction with the police. We concur with one of the statements that was made, that we do believe there is insufficient resources for the intelligence community, for the police services. There has to be much more. So much is going under the radar. Because I've been doing this for way over 15 years, and I've been monitoring websites and emerging hate groups, and reading a lot of the dialogue that is going on on social networking, I know so much of it is actually not being monitored, not being followed up sufficiently. I do believe that more resources are necessary, and more than necessary, they're essential for this country to provide a safety net for not only.... I mentioned the Jewish community because I'm speaking from that perspective, but I'm genuinely concerned. In Toronto, as an example, with someone with a backpack walking onto a subway in the morning rush hour, we should be very concerned. I don't think the general community in Canada, I mean citizens and law enforcement, have their radars up. I really do believe that we're still asleep.
I think that one of the things this bill will do is wake people up, and this is exactly what we're doing here today, I believe.