Public Safety committee  You bring up a good point, sir. As you know, there is no mechanism right now to compel the attendance of a witness with respect to a terrorism investigation. Of course, the investigative hearing could be utilized to compel a witness with respect to a terrorist act about to be c

Public Safety committee  Sir, to answer your question, there are certainly different ways in which we collect information. On an ongoing investigation, if we do have a wiretap authorization and we do intercept through technical means a conversation involving an individual, yes, there is information that

Public Safety committee  The recognizance with conditions, as you know, would only be utilized in the rarest of cases, when there is an imminent threat to public safety. If we were to receive information that there was an imminent threat to public safety—

Public Safety committee  In this case here, it would be.... Is your question, would the threat be from abroad?

Public Safety committee  I think recognizance could be applied to a situation like that if someone was attempting to leave the country to commit a terrorist act. Yes, I could see it.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for inviting me here to speak about Bill S-7, the combatting terrorism legislation. I appreciate the opportunity to provide answers to your questions about the implications for law enforcement arising from this bill. The RCMP believes that Bill

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is certainly the easiest way. The backup would be the booklet for a member, to verify—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Turmel.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is a briefing that occurs in the preplanning. First of all, there's the preplanning phase, where all of the partner agencies are involved in setting the parameters. Then there are consecutive briefings right up to the actual event or the day of the event. There will be su

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, we have the master security planning office, which is comprised of House of Commons, Senate, and RCMP security, to work through these matters. I'm going to ask the officer in charge of protective operations, who is here with me today—Chief Superintendent Marty Cheliak—to en

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First of all, Mr. Chair and Mr. Comartin, let me apologize for that incident. That's unacceptable. Our members should have.... Again, once the visit has ended and perimeters are down, there's free access, so that should not have occurred. With respect to why they were still t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, sir, I won't get into the specific numbers of the officers we had deployed that day, but it would be more than 100.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct. The majority would be mobilized from our headquarters and other areas.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's my understanding that they have to present a card.