I think there's always a tension when you have competing imperatives. As you noted, on the one hand, we all want to ensure maximum freedom and individual rights. However, on the other hand, we recognize that there's an equally important imperative to ensure the collective safety of all Canadians from the threats that have emerged and manifest themselves, not just abroad, but assert themselves here in Canada.
I think one of the ways to achieve that balance is the way that this legislation attempts to provide the kind of qualitative oversight by a review board that is one step removed from the front lines.
I suspect that one of the challenges, for those who are directly involved in the challenge of tracking and interdicting terrorist threats, is that they become very focused on the mission, without necessarily always appreciating the context.
Having a review committee that's able to assess whether the approach is properly calibrated is a way, both retroactively, but also proactively, to ensure that we have achieved the right balance.
Having an additional layer of reporting to Parliament, so that elected officials, who have a direct relationship with those in the community who are being directly affected by these kinds of measures, ensures that there is not just the accountability but also the responsiveness to what the experience in the community is.
I think that this legislation does properly capture the spirt of being able to balance the need for security against the need to protect individual freedoms.