Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Murphy. I'll keep my comments to two points and I'll try to be as brief as possible. First of all, I want to reiterate the importance of the lawful access perspective. There is misunderstanding on the part of the public, based on some of the media articles I've s

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Petit. Canada is no different from some other countries, but we have to be careful not to generalize. Criminal organizations have many resources at their disposal. We know, based on information that we have and on cases that had been brought to the atten

Justice committee  I understand, but once again, we must not generalize. My comments were not about any single specific situation. I actually meant that we must realize that even Canada is not immune to corruption. Following certain investigations and criminal prosecutions, we know that government

Justice committee  Absolutely, sir. Your bill addresses certain gaps and shortcomings that were there and it will have an impact, I believe, on the corruption we are discussing here, and especially on the protection of employees.

Justice committee  Thank you very much for your question. There isn't an easy answer. I believe there has to be a multi-faceted approach. To go back to your original question, committees such as this one with elected officials clearly have a significant role to play. This is not an issue that law

Justice committee  I believe, actually, it was a few years ago that the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police put out a resolution against decriminalizing drugs in Canada. Personally, I don't believe it's a solution; I don't think it would solve the problem. Again, these organizations are involv

Justice committee  Certainly. We have a number of different initiatives where we work very closely with our American counterparts. I guess probably front and centre to the issues we're discussing here today would be the integrated border enforcement teams, which in fact are composed of five core ag

Justice committee  I believe you're absolutely right. The drug trade remains the primary source. What we're seeing, though, is a lot of those criminal organizations are branching, if you want, and they're moving into other lucrative criminal ventures that maybe do not necessarily hold the same kind

Justice committee  Depending on how it's applied, it would act partially as a deterrent. I say “partially” because I don't believe it would have the impact that the public might think it would have. But as Mr. Rezac mentioned, if they're incarcerated, they're not on the street, so it would provide

Justice committee  I'm afraid I can't answer that question. I don't know.

Justice committee  Probably not much. I know there are similar discussions that are ongoing between U.S. law enforcement agencies and some of the industry leaders, including RIM, for example, over access to intercept technology. I can confirm they don't have the technology. I assume they are facing

Justice committee  Actually, CACP and the Canadian law enforcement community do not support two-for-one pre-custody time.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. LeBlanc, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your very interesting question. There are actually a number of different approaches that I can think of right now, but of course they would require further examination, and as I'm sure you are aware, there are a lot of people r

Justice committee  I don't see why it couldn't be built, and actually I refer back to 10 years, 15 years, or 20 years ago. The technologies of those days were emerging technologies, and the proper guidelines were put in place to make sure there was not abuse. Law enforcement was, and still is, and

Justice committee  The crown prosecutor himself or herself prefers to have paper.