Mr. Speaker, the hon. gentleman's sound and fury is signifying nothing. The best experts do not agree with him.
Phil Gurski, a former CSIS officer, now in the private sector, said “the previous government had an abysmal record when it came to countering violent extremism and early detection.” He said that the Conservative government did not care.
Dr. Lorne Dawson, of the University of Waterloo, said “the previous conservative government had...no interest in following up on this, so Canada is late.”
We are getting into the game five years late. That is the Conservative record. It is a mess.