First, I want to thank you for your presentation, and also our witnesses by video conference. We're here discussing a very important issue.
First, let me make it very clear that I do not support any acts of violence. I think that any acts of violence, verbal or physical, that are based on race, culture, or religion are quite abhorrent. We live in a country where we take a lot of pride in our multiculturalism. I don't want to get heavily into that, but right now....
I also heard a lot in the presentation, at least the second one, on the Muslim community. Let me tell you that I have the privilege of representing a very active Muslim community in Surrey, B.C., and they have been doing exemplary work in taking on radicalization and working with youth in an interfaith way, not on their own, but with others. I would like to take this opportunity to commend the BCMA for the work they have done. People who have turned out to the meetings are Canadians like us sitting around this room, and what I hear from them—the Muslims, the Sikhs, the Christians, and even those who don't have a religion—is that they want to have a safe and secure country for their children and want what we want for our children.
The first question I have is directed more towards Mr. Major.
As you know, the Air India tragedy, the largest act of terrorism to take place on Canadian soil, touched Canadians right across this country from coast to coast to coast, and in particular the community in Surrey, where there were a number of people—people who still come to see me—whose siblings or parents or uncles and aunts were on that flight. As we know, some people lost their whole families. These families are still waiting for some kind of closure on this whole issue.
One thing that came out in the inquiry was the importance of having coordination between security and intelligence agencies. Now in this bill CSIS gets the powers of disruption, the same powers the RCMP has on that point, without any oversight or coordinating body. Do you think this will create more overlap and inter-agency disputes—because people do tend to become territorial—and create risks that threats will fall through the cracks, as they did in the past?