Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister Goodale, my thanks for being with us, and my thanks to the senior officials who are with you today.
The Government of Canada is a government that has committed to making strategic investments to take our country forward, and it certainly has a strong mandate from Canadians. We've talked about infrastructure in your earlier comments in your exchange with my colleague Pam Damoff. You mentioned green infrastructure, social infrastructure, and transit.
The same is true on the public safety side. We've made significant investments in disaster resilience and public safety. These are public goods that Canadians cherish and value highly, with a view to building an open, inclusive, and diverse society, as you mentioned.
I want to take you to table 6 of the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness expenditures on countering crime. The expenditures for 2015-16 were at $149 million and for 2016-17 are just over $210 million each year into 2017-18. I wanted to ask you about a program that's of significant interest to the community in my riding, particularly faith leaders, and that's the proposed office of counter-radicalization and community outreach. I'm wondering if you could update the committee on your latest thinking, on what you've heard recently from community leaders and people who are interested in this program, and on where you see it going in the future.