Public Safety committee  I'm going to ask our legal counsel, Mr. Therrien, to talk to that with respect to the special advocates team.

Public Safety committee  Then the ministers of immigration and public safety would receive new security certificates, which they would be required to sign. Then the individuals who are being either detained or are on conditions of release would go through the process before the court with a special advoc

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  First of all, we did look at the U.K. model, particularly with respect to the special advocates. I think when the minister was testifying he indicated some of the differences between what we're proposing and what exists in the U.K. system. Essentially, what we tried to do was to

Public Safety committee  If this isn't passed by February 23, 2008, then the applicants, or the people who are being detained or are on conditional release under security certificates, would appeal to the court to have those security certificates or conditions of release quashed, and they would be succes

Public Safety committee  Right now, those arrests without warrant, if they're violating their conditions of release, are built into the release order. So we were attempting to just formulate that in law.

Public Safety committee  Generally that's how it's dealt with. In their conditions of release, if they breach the terms of their release, then they can be picked up.

Public Safety committee  I would ask my colleague from the Department of Justice to deal with that, because they're setting up the program. Daniel.