I think it's important to say this. We have to keep our eye on the big picture. The big picture is that we have a terrorist force spreading across the globe, starting in the Middle East, but certainly their tentacles have reached into developed countries such as Canada, but also Denmark and Australia and France, and we have to have a regime that can push back and protect Canadians against this kind of incursion.
If anyone on the other side seriously believes that this threat is going to somehow magically dissipate in three years, they are badly mistaken and did not listen to the intelligence experts we heard in front of this committee. If we put a regime in place and then say it's a short-term thing, that in three years it will be gone, how are our security forces supposed to operate if they are not sure exactly what's going to happen?
If the regime needs to be changed in some way, then Parliament is entrusted with doing that and will do so. But to say that all of a sudden we fall off the edge of the cliff in three years with respect to our security regime would send a very bad signal, and it is not the right way to go about the business of protecting Canadians. Tweaks are necessary. They will happen, but to just say there's going to be a chop-off date in three years is a very bad strategy.