I definitely think that if any person in this country was facing this type of imminent threat of assassination.... Being shown a simple piece of paper that is taken back from you and then being left to your own devices feels like a shift of liability. When we were sitting in that space, it felt like the duty to warn was like, “We've told you, and now if something happens to you, we can wash our hands of it.” It's a horrible feeling for anyone living in this country. I hope no one in this room ever has to experience it. I have had multiple experiences with it over the last two years.
I definitely think there needs to be more. There was a similar question earlier on. I won't go too far into it, but I do believe there are things that we can do for the long game to ensure that Canadians don't have to go through this. We can protect our borders. We can protect this country, and we can protect the Sikh community in this country. The one thing we shouldn't be looking at is silencing communities and saying that if they just went quiet on this issue, they would be left alone.
It's not just an issue of the Sikh community anymore. This is an issue of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of this country. That has to be more apparent. This is not a fight just between Sikhs and India anymore. It is now a fight, as we can see with the expulsion of diplomats, between Canada and India.
In the long term, I think we have to get to the root of the problem, but in the short term, as I mentioned before, there's not a lot that even we think can happen, but what's happening right now is very limited, for sure.