First, Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Burnaby—New Westminster has t it all wrong. He seems to think that this measure is one of either we use it or we lose it.
Canadians are demanding that we have in place the tools that are necessary to actually get the job done. I am so pleased that we have not had to use this legislation in the past to intervene when there were cases of terrorist activity in Canada.
What is even more intriguing is that the NDP and my colleague from Burnaby—New Westminster are more interested in throwing law-abiding citizens in jail for not filling out a census form but they will not throw violent offenders and terrorists in jail. I do not know how they explain that. They make all this to-do about the fact that people do not want to disclose to the government, quite rightly so, how many rooms they have in their house. They want to throw those kinds of people in jail, law-abiding Canadian citizens, but they do not support our efforts to get tough on violent criminals and terrorists. Shame on them.