Public Safety committee  Sure. Simply to round that out a bit, there's the $10 million over five years for the Kanishka project that the minister has mentioned. We think it's a very important project. There's not much research in the area of countering violent extremism. This $10 million is the envy of

Public Safety committee  We're just working with the community to define both the threat assessment and then how the four pillars will be enacted and implemented through an action plan through each of those four pillars.

Public Safety committee  Yes, there is a commitment. You'll notice that pages 7 to 9 of the policy run through this year's threat assessment, with an all-of-government approach of sorts, articulating the threat to Canadians. There's a commitment to update that assessment each year. We're working with the

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. I first want to reiterate a point the minister has made a number of times, that the pursuit of lawful political activity or protest, whatever its character, is a fundamental right in Canada. I don't think anything in the strategy talks against that or

Public Safety committee  No. I think they're considered criminal groups. If it were a federal issue the RCMP would be involved, but I imagine that's being dealt with by the Toronto police, but I can't comment on the issue.

Public Safety committee  That's a good question. I think what you've hit upon is the work plan for the national security branch of Public Safety over the next year. Our job now is to shift to implementation. What we're doing is that we're looking at each of the pillars. We're creating clear work plans

Public Safety committee  I can start it from a policy perspective, and then Mr. MacDonald can talk from the operations side. From the policy perspective, it depends on the issue. If we're talking about national security issues related to admissibility, that's kind of a different group. But it's a very s

Public Safety committee  No, I’m not.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I believe there is a reference in the strategy to terrorists' interest in using, say, the Internet as a tool to facilitate attacks. I could be wrong, but as that threat is evolving quickly, it would be something we'd want to note in the next iteration of the threat assessmen

Public Safety committee  First of all, there's a bit of a time lag between when these documents are written and when they're actually published. This was released in February, but a good part of it was written last summer and fall, so there's a—

Public Safety committee  I think we're going to have to get back to you on that. I imagine it was something to do with the LTTE’s being a listed entity, so we'll have to.... You were looking for a good example here, so let me get back to you on that.

Public Safety committee  The main strategic driver noted in the strategy is globalization and just how quickly interconnections are being built across the globe, both through social media and technology from one perspective, but also in terms of financing networks. I think we would say this is a big aspe

Public Safety committee  That's a good question. I think the one thing we can say with certainty is that what we think of as the threat today will not be the threat 10 or 20 years from now. As policy-makers, I think we're always of the view that nothing is static. Ten years ago, certainly perhaps pre-9/1

Public Safety committee  It's a pulling together of approaches for the government, on behalf of the government.

Public Safety committee  Also, when you look at the conceptual framework, it's the first time we've put in one place organizing principles for ourselves as a way to help set priorities going forward. In one sense, yes, it's pulling together things that have existed for some time. Certainly in the nation