Public Safety Committee on April 29th, 2010

[Brent Rathgeber, Conservative, Edmonton—St. Albert, AB]

Is there a country that has that right, based on your monitoring?

[Roch Tassé]

To the extent that it's legislated and meets the principles of fundamental justice, that could be acceptable.

[Brent Rathgeber, Conservative, Edmonton—St. Albert, AB]

What country could I look at?

[Roch Tassé]

There are probably no models. Even the U.S. secure flight program, even the domestic.... It was legislated in Congress, but in my opinion it does not meet the requirements of fundamental justice.

[Brent Rathgeber, Conservative, Edmonton—St. Albert, AB]

Right. Thank you.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

Thank you.

And thank you for ending right on the seven-minute mark, Mr. Rathgeber. Well planned.

[Brent Rathgeber, Conservative, Edmonton—St. Albert, AB]

I'm not that efficient.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

On behalf of all the members of the committee, I'd like to express our appreciation to all the witnesses for their very helpful testimony. Thank you again.

[Maria Mourani, Bloc, Ahuntsic, QC]

Mr. Davies, given all the work we have accomplished today, given the fact that we met with these people and the people from the RCMP, the Department of Transportation and Public Safety, I believe we must send a brief report to the House, as we intend to do with regard to the issue concerning female inmates. I think this is fundamental. This issue shows there are major weaknesses and breaches with regard to Canada's sovereignty and human rights. It is essential that we write a report on the matter.

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Roger Préfontaine]

Is that a motion?

[Maria Mourani, Bloc, Ahuntsic, QC]

Yes. We can do this in a friendly way, otherwise I will make a formal motion.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

Before I hear from Mr. McColeman, might I consider that to be a notice of motion? And then we would be prepared to consider that at the next appropriate meeting.

[Maria Mourani, Bloc, Ahuntsic, QC]

Yes, this is a motion.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

The chair will accept it as a notice of motion.

Mr. McColeman.

[Phil McColeman, Conservative, Brant, ON]

I note that on the notice of meeting this was a briefing. And this was, again, pre-determined in our scheduling process as we came back into session. Certainly this briefing today was very significant, but I don't think we'd be doing anyone any favours by making a report based on the little amount of time we have had to consider it and to listen to other people who would like to weigh in on it. Just to take what we have, a valuable but small amount of information, and write a report, to me, is not doing anybody any justice. This was a briefing, not a study.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

Mr. Kania.

[Andrew Kania, Liberal, Brampton West, ON]

Just briefly, that's argument for the motion. So if the notice of motion has been accepted for the next day, then I think we would discuss it fully then, wouldn't we?

[Phil McColeman, Conservative, Brant, ON]

Procedurally, if that's the right thing to do, I'm okay with it. But I'm not in agreement that we should be writing a report based on the briefing we had today.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

I'm going to agree with Mr. Kania that it's a notice of motion.

Mr. McColeman, it may be a valid point of debate that may cause the committee to vote against the motion, but I don't think it goes to the validity of whether the motion can be made or not. So I'm going to rule that the motion is in order and encourage the members to bring those points to debate when it's appropriately moved.

[Phil McColeman, Conservative, Brant, ON]

Thank you.

[The Vice-Chair, NDP, Don Davies]

Seeing no further business before the committee, I declare the meeting adjourned.