Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I truly understand how he feels about this bill.
We know that this Conservative government is slashing budgets everywhere, including the budgets for community police services.
How can we expect community police, or other enforcement services, to do their job properly if they do not have the required means? We know very well that satellites and sophisticated devices are not the way to collect reliable information.
We have to provide the tools and the means, even if only to those in the field, to detect any activity that could result in a terrorist act.