Transport committee  Is there a better way?

Transport committee  Again, I would be very pleased.... I know that you'd like me to give you an answer. I'm not a security expert. As for the ways, I can't comment. As for the rights being affected by those ways, I'm always pleased to come before the committee to comment.

Transport committee  Yes. I can certainly understand--

Transport committee  Oh.

Transport committee  Yes. It's section 1 of the charter, section 15 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Transport committee  Certainly. Thank you.

Transport committee  With regard to your latter question, I think that's a privacy question you're posing. Certainly we've had dialogue with the Privacy Commissioner; however, with respect, I refer you to her for any comments. Again, with the greatest of respect, I can't comment on something I have

Transport committee  No. I guess I could repeat myself, but the comment I made in my opening statement is that it can only be justifiable if it meets certain criteria. The work that we're doing is to meet with the security organizations and relevant departments to engage in developing processes and m

Transport committee  I read the report the same way that you've read the report, and that is that there is a concern about a complete lack of scientific evidence and that because law enforcement agencies are not collecting data about responses on the front line, there isn't even a foundation to start

Transport committee  Right. Well, in developing a measure that has a discriminatory impact, the onus is on the security and law enforcement agency to justify it--and I emphasize the word “justify”. Guidance has been provided by jurisprudence. The test includes looking at whether the measure is necess

Transport committee  Thank you. It's not anything we have ever looked at, and I certainly wouldn't want to offer an opinion without looking at it from many different perspectives.

Transport committee  With regard to racial profiling, correct; other types of profiling--as I say, such as behavioural profiling--would presumably not offend the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Transport committee  Again, on a case-by-case basis, we'd have to look at that.

Transport committee  I'm suggesting that behavioural profiling should not run into issues of discrimination. Racial profiling clearly would. And--

Transport committee  Certainly there could be. That's why it's difficult to make blanket statements, and I'm reluctant to make a blanket statement. However, what we...and I completely agree with you; we do not want to see racial profiling, and there is no scientific basis for such profiling.