May I answer, Mr. Chairman? We will keep order.
I read through the remarks of Dr. Salter and Rafi Sela, and I believe there is a little bit of a confusion in the understanding of the system, which is the risk-based assessment on what happens in Israeli airports versus other airports.
In Israel the risk assessment by the authorities is basically very simple. One fact is that Tel Aviv has 11 million passengers. You know how many you have in Pearson, so the number of passengers to deal with is completely different. Out of those 11 million, any passenger who is Jewish, serves in the Israeli Army, and has been there represents less of a threat than the others.
So the first step or the first action of their conduct is to verify. Are you one of those? Are you okay? Because if you are okay, they don't need to waste time on you. They need to waste time on the guy with the kaffiyeh on his head and so on and so on, because this is the riskier group. If they have a group of tourists on a bus, they say, “Let's verify that these are very positively oriented tourists and they did not go to visit the Palestinian Authority in order to support the training of the bad guys”.
This is exactly the process that happened to you. The assumption that a member of Parliament in Canada is responsible, with a group of honest-looking people, is a very positive understanding. The process that happened is that they said, “Okay, let's concentrate on the rest”.