Public Safety committee  Once again I agree with everything David has said here, but I would add that there's also a larger political issue that comes to the forefront. That is, what we've seen over time is the tendency of the leading political parties of the day to basically frame the threat in a certai

Public Safety committee  —we check off the box. There is a need to have a willingness to understand that events change. In fact, the government has to be willing to admit that they don't fully understand what the threat is. For example, just in today's discussions, we've heard people focus on poverty as

Public Safety committee  No, I'm sorry, the headphones aren't working.

Public Safety committee  No, no. You can go ahead. If I hold it down, it works.

Public Safety committee  This is probably also one of the most difficult issues when we're thinking about it. For example, I think in the current situation, we're seeing a lot of concern about some of the extremists in terms of the environmentalist groups. We're hearing that the attacks that have occurre

Public Safety committee  You've hit on what, for many of us, is one of the most challenging issues whenever we are dealing with information sharing with allies. We're not speaking of a hypothetical. We've seen instances where in fact we have had information gathered from the use of torture amongst allies

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the opportunity. One of the challenges we're always facing within the Canadian context, which Dr. Bercuson touched on in some of his comments, is that we do have a tendency to deal with the threat that has just occurred. In other words, if we look back

Public Safety committee  “May” not, because once again it's dealing with the specifics of probably what we're going to have to do on each of these issues. Once again, as soon as it goes beyond the specifics of the individual, and the focus is of course on the radicalization and the treatment of individua

Public Safety committee  I was referring there to the infrastructure on outside analysis of the changing security environment. For example, we used to have a government-based source of funding for, at the university level, what was known as the security and defence forum. That allowed expertise to be dev

Public Safety committee  You could get academics and you could also get practitioners—again, a variety of individuals. For example, going to Dr. Bercuson's think tank, you get ex-government officials working alongside academics. It's people with expertise in the field.

Public Safety committee  Sure. You have American institutes like the Wilson Center and other types of think tanks like RAND that will be trying to think outside the box on rising threats. Those are two that immediately come to mind.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I have two points to make. I won't rehash what Dr. Bercuson has so eloquently brought before you in terms of the historical context. The first one involves the ongoing challenges we face in terms of the ability of a long-term analysis of the evolving nature

Public Safety committee  Yes. What I would like to conclude on is that there is a need for a long-term capability, both within government and outside government, to be able to continually ask how we address the terrorism and the security threats of today, how we anticipate them into tomorrow, and how we