Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
As I said at the beginning of these discussions, we believe that clause 16, taken in its totality, is the most dangerous part of this bill. It's reckless and it's unnecessary. At the appropriate stage—we cannot do this in the committee stage—we will be moving to delete this entire section as recommended by the Canadian Bar Association.
The government, again, has failed to demonstrate any gap in the Criminal Code in the introduction of this new offence. We've been able to have successful prosecutions of the Toronto 18 and of the VIA Rail bombers. The RCMP Commissioner appeared before this committee and said that he would have been able to prosecute the shooter in Ottawa under the existing Criminal Code provisions. The government has not demonstrated any need for this new, vague offence—