Thank you very much, Ms. Damoff, first of all, for your gracious remarks. It's been quite a journey for all of us on the committee, and we're really proud of the fact that we've managed to produce a series of non-partisan reports adopted by members of all parties in both Houses. We hope that this might serve as a precedent, actually, in a difficult time when perhaps we need more non-partisanship and when we need more co-operation on the floor of the House to be able to move the country forward. We certainly think that that's an important approach to bring to national security.
We did not look at the question of systemic racism per se inside our institutions or within the public service in particular. It's clear—members, I think, would agree—that it's time to recognize the long-standing barriers that racialized minorities face in Canada and the need to dismantle those barriers everywhere.
We did include, however, and we made sure to indicate it in this diversity and inclusion review, international comparative evidence and studies that were undertaken by a couple of other organizations—Ms. Marcoux can chime in here—such as the FBI and the CIA, and we included some other comparative information and analysis that indicates that those organizations in the security and intelligence community that are more diverse and more inclusive are higher-performing organizations. The membership of NSICOP feels that not only is it foolish in and of itself to leave people behind and not be able to reach out and engage as many as we can in productive roles, but it's also affecting the overall performance of the security and intelligence community.