Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank both of you for coming to this important study. This committee came together unanimously through the call for an emergency meeting, and we unanimously supported this study. The revelations that were made on October 14, like you said, are things that the Sikh community in Canada has known about for the past number of decades. Finally, the rest of Canada is waking up to the reality of the threat. I hope there's some validation there now. I think the trick is to see that we can continue our efforts to meet this threat with the seriousness that it deserves.
Earlier this week, we had both the RCMP commissioner and the director of CSIS here. I want to touch on the issue of security clearances for federal party leaders, because when I asked the new director of CSIS, Mr. Daniel Rogers, about his perspective on federal party leaders getting security clearances, he said that it would basically allow federal leaders to be more aware and that they could take appropriate actions within their own parties.
Maybe I'll start with you, Mr. Moninder Singh. I don't think this is really about gagging federal party leaders. I think this is about equipping them with the ability to take action so that Canadians can have confidence in the next election that no one running under a party banner might be compromised.
When the CSIS director talked about actions that a properly briefed federal party leader can take, do you have some suggestions on what that could be? I think we're just trying to get this on the record because we ultimately want to make sure that our electoral processes are secure no matter what party you belong to.