Public Safety committee  It's good to speak to someone who has a knowledge of the process, as you obviously do in Ontario. As you know, by the way, in Ontario with Mr. Gerry McNeely, they actually put in another piece, which had been absent for 13 years. It not only looks at complaints but looks at broad

Public Safety committee  The O'Connor inquiry was established, I believe, prior to.... I think it was 2004-05. So clearly it's those recommendations with the key one, because that's the first time anyone has actually looked at this, since 1976 or 1974, and he made those recommendations. Clearly, they hav

Public Safety committee  That is correct.

Public Safety committee  There's just one thing I wanted to speak to. It might have come out of Mr. Ménard's question, which I hadn't responded to. In phase 2 of the O'Connor report he talked about national security creating some sort of overarching body that would actually have the chairperson for SIRC

Public Safety committee  We have our annual report that goes to every member of Parliament, and other work we do we give, certainly, to the critics of each of the parties and committee members. We try to do that and inform people through the years. All of the work we do, whether it's public statements o

Public Safety committee  I won't characterize or respond to comments, but I will, on a systemic issue, indicate...and I've indicated that before in public speeches. One of my objectives is we're impartial, we're constructive, we're remedial, and our objective is to restore and maintain the public confide

Public Safety committee  Are there black holes? I've indicated that clearly there are. They only show up when you have an issue and you have to look and you can't get access. That's a black hole. The CBSA one is clearly an example. I said the integration isn't just federal--it's federal-provincial-munici

Public Safety committee  Yes, because I remember when that was being developed and talking to Transport at the time, and what's happened is that we have had no complaints either. I guess the challenge is that you go to Transport and you don't know where you got it from and what they're acting upon, but t

Public Safety committee  If in reference to myself, because the work falls under the rubric of national security and therefore is classified—for instance, have they put procedures in place dealing with disclosure of information, and has there been adherence by them to those procedures—by definition, sinc

Public Safety committee  None.

Public Safety committee  Clearly, no legislative changes. My act has been the same act since 1988.

Public Safety committee  I would like the power. I don't want a separate power of national security. I think everything falls in one power. You don't separate national security; it's all part of what they do. Every activity they do should be subject to our review. By the way, just to clarify the record,

Public Safety committee  Not really. These are very funny words. You're dealing with smoke when you deal with review and oversight. One of the traditional things we have...you could call us an appeal body in terms of complaints. Although they talk of that as a review, it's actually an appeal function.

Public Safety committee  Yes, well, the complaints clearly are from people that things happened to after the fact.

Public Safety committee  It actually hasn't grown. With inflation it's less than what it started out as, but okay.