Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank all the witnesses for appearing this morning. It was an Interesting perspective from the Heritage Foundation from the U.S. I appreciate the testimony you gave this morning.
I also want to say that I have the written brief from CIJA. You have some very specific recommendations that we have not heard from other witnesses, in particular where you have recommended that the chair of SIRC be an officer of Parliament and provide regular reports to Parliament. I think that's a very practical and very important recommendation, so I thank you for bringing that to us.
I also want to say that I do understand the concerns you've expressed as a community that is very often subject to hate crimes and hate propaganda.
As I only have five minutes I'm going to restrict my questioning. I'm going to go to Mr. Mia from the Muslim Lawyers Association.
Could you talk a little bit about the connection between the purposes of this bill and the powers that are in it? Do you see a connection between the purposes as they're laid out and the powers?