Mr. Speaker, just in response to that, the member for Timmins—James Bay should be very careful with what he is saying.
I came to the office at basically the time when we received the situational advisory. I had two children with me. There was no way for me to be able to do everything at once: checking my email, walking with my kids and entering the building. I would just ask the member not to be putting context into what I am saying when he does not know.
Through my office window, I could see that protesters were being removed from the Confederation Building. They were not willingly leaving; they resisted their removal. This was not peaceful. I know that there are people, including Parliament staff members, who were physically here and who witnessed and remember the terrorist attack that happened in Centre Block in 2014.
This incident that happened just this week is triggering for those who were here and who experienced that event. Not to mention, there were those who were feeling unsafe for the first time, in what was supposed to be a safe place.
What I was most uneasy about is that Global News reported on this on November 12, with the headline, “Teens accused of plotting to bomb pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill”. That information was fresh in my mind, and the fact is that I have a Jewish colleague whose office is near mine; this is the environment we are in. Anti-Semitism is violently on the rise in this country—