Absolutely, I do believe that is true, because what we see today is unique in the sense that this is also an ideological war, as I said before, so tools are needed to understand where it's coming from.
But our own law enforcement agencies have been quite cognizant of this. Again, I refer you to the document in which I reported that, even as far back as what was happening in Canada before and after 9/11, even in the early 1990s, the Islamist groups in Canada were identified—Hezbollah, Hamas, and several Sunni and Islamic extremist groups with ties to Egypt, Algeria, and Libya.
In 1998 Ward Elcock, the then-director of CSIS, testified that there were more international terrorist organizations active in Canada than in any other country in the world, perhaps with the exception of the United States. When I saw that, that really made Bill C-51 valid.