Thank you, Mr. Chair
Thank you again, everybody, for being here. This is my first round with this group here.
Ms. Lloyd, thank you so much for being here the whole day. It's probably getting a bit tiring at this point. We do thank you for that.
We are thankful as well about the fact that what we saw here, what's been widely reported and what's culminated in criminal charges.... We're obviously very happy that our security and law enforcement personnel foiled what would have been a catastrophic act. We're very thankful for that.
At the same time, I echo what my colleague Monsieur Fortin said. I wrote down that we got the answers, but the answers don't feel all that reassuring. To look at this, I'm trying to take off my hat as a lawyer or even as a parliamentarian. I try to look through the lens of my father, for instance, so I'm looking at this through the lens of the ordinary Canadian. For instance, with you, Mr. McCrorie, when you started out, you said, “I'm not sure there were any failures.” You talked about the robust process. With all due respect, I'm not sure that satisfies the average Canadian. I'm not sure that satisfies my father, so I'm going to go through each of you.
Ms. Lloyd, can you see how, given what we know.... This is what we know. This person came into Canada in 2017. They were granted a permanent residency and were granted citizenship in 2024, despite there being evidence online of acts, active acts, with ISIS. Can you see how the average Canadian is not comforted by this notion of reassurance?