Public Safety committee  I didn't say that.

Public Safety committee  We are concerned about what appeared to be a systemic violation of sections 10(a) and 10(b) under the charter. To clarify, those rights apply to anyone in Canada, regardless of citizenship. Further, with respect to retaining counsel, we actually hadn't retained counsel. We rece

Public Safety committee  Those are reports that we've received. Our submission to this committee is a synthesis of legal observer reports and reports received by members of our committee.

Public Safety committee  Certainly the Movement Defence Committee has concluded that people's rights have been trampled upon wantonly by the security forces, both in the weeks leading up to and during the weekend of the G-20. We would opine that this is one more example of a pattern of disregard for the

Public Safety committee  It's not only for citizens of Canada; the charter would apply to anyone in Canada. Section 10(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would indicate that one is to be advised of the reasons for one's detention or arrest immediately upon that transpiring. There's a line

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Yes. In particular we've identified the Harper government. But having said that—

Public Safety committee  Certainly. Looking into recent history, there has been much criticism of the mass arrests that took place in Quebec in 2001 during the free trade area of the Americas protests. That pattern of mass arrests is exactly what we're seeing fleshed out, and even on steroids, as it were

Public Safety committee  I'll be very quick. I only have two other areas of concern that I'd like to highlight.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. There were mass violations of the Human Rights Code and the Canada Human Rights Act. People can go to our submissions in order to talk about the targeting, notably of many visibly queer persons. Also, those who were disabled were not accommodated when they were detai

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm here speaking today as a member of the Law Union of Ontario's movement defence committee. I'm also a lawyer, but I'm today speaking as a member of that committee. Just by way of background, that's a working group of the Law Union of Ontario, and that w