Public Safety committee   by a Court or an Immigration Adjudicator or some other authority. You make quite clear in your presentation that basically this is a tool, and a fairly effective tool, based on your presentation, but that the system still has to be in place. For example, officers must be trained on how

Public Safety committee  We'll take 30 seconds to close off this video conference. I guess that's cleared now. We'll move to our next guest. In our second hour we're going to continue the study of electronic monitoring. Our witness, Dr. Brian Grant, is director general of the research branch

Public Safety committee  Well, I'm talking about the technology rather than the actions of clients, so if you're saying the technology is reliable, then in some way there's a connection between that and what clients are able to do because of a failure of technology. To be clear, what you're saying quite

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, I just want to make sure it's clear that there are 37 operational.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing. I must say I was a little disappointed with your written presentation, because it doesn't really focus very much on the actual technology. Just to be clear, I'd like to ask you both a couple

Financial Literacy Leader Act   to allege it is really doing something, when in effect it is doing nothing? One thing that is clear in the bill is the appointment of another person. We have several boards with patronage appointments where the appointees are virtually doing nothing but spending money. Is this really

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Both international law and the Supreme Court of Canada have made it very clear that if people are going to be detained in an administrative context, that is, if we're detaining people who have not been tried or convicted of anything at all, that detention needs to be narrowly

Citizenship and Immigration committee  , or being thought to be a flight risk perhaps. Are there any numbers or statistics, in terms of flight risk, on people who actually have been incarcerated for that reason and who actually end up engaging in flight? I don't know if I'm being very clear on that. Do you understand my

Finance committee   to be simple and the obligations for administrators clear in order to generate interest from a minimum number of institutions, which would encourage competition. However, the devil is in the details. The simpler the plan is to implement and administer, the more chance of it being

Citizenship and Immigration committee   it takes to clear a border. Well, here are three programs—one Canadian and two American—to try to facilitate the expedient entry of truck drivers and trucks into the United States and into Canada. Also, in addition to the security of trucks entering and exiting, they particularly

Financial Literacy Leader Act  Mr. Speaker, I must thank my hon. colleague from Sudbury. I admire his candour and his clear-sightedness in the field we are discussing. As I read the bill, basically I ask myself what the government’s objective is. It is entirely laudable to want to educate people about

41st General Elections  It is very interesting, Mr. Speaker. Once again, the Conservative Party conducted a clean and ethical campaign and we have absolutely nothing to apologize for in that regard. What is clear also is that the Liberal Party has known for some time that it hired these firms, firms

41st General Election   Party used this very company to do voter contact information for them. The Liberals are saying that misleading calls went into Vancouver by callers claiming to be from the Liberal Party. It is pretty clear that they were in fact calling on behalf of the Liberal Party because

Liberal Party of Canada  . It is clear that Adam Carroll did not act alone. Which other Liberals knew about it? When did they know? There is not an ounce of remorse in the Liberal caucus for this sleazy dirty trick. Liberal caucus members need to come clean and answer our questions, and offer an unreserved apology

Status of Women   and responsibilities of women and engage in activities to promote social change. These women are protecting their hard-won gains and standing up for women and families. They want to be clear that they practice a social egalitarian feminism whose goal is equal status, freedom of choice