This is really a bill in itself. This is not being debated by parliamentarians in the House. It's a big deal. It's something that's new. I don't know if we can do it justice here.
My concerns, as my colleague has indicated, is that in circumstances—and we don't agree with the idea of obtaining information through torture in the first place—where information is obtained in that way and somewhere in Canada we have an imminent risk, are we not going to act on that? Are we going to ignore that information? That's what you're saying, that we're going to ignore it because we're not going to accept that information as being admissible or being able to be acted upon. We're going to ignore it and who pays the consequences of that?
I get that we have to be careful. I get that this is an area that we have to tread on very, very carefully. I'm concerned that in exigent circumstances, we are opening ourselves up to the potential for public safety risk, national security risk. I want us to be mindful that this is what this act is all about. We don't go out seeking it. We don't go out endorsing the gathering of information in this manner. However, we need to be mindful that should it present itself, we can't ignore it.
I think that's something we have to be very mindful of. In this day and age, putting our heads in the sand and hoping we'll never have to deal with this might be naive.