Public Safety committee  Thank you. Merci. CAIR-CAN has received reports from members of the Muslim community who have complained about intimidation by CSIS, about being questioned concerning how many times a day they prayed, and so forth. This is something of deep concern to the Muslim community. As o

Public Safety committee  That's correct, as I understand it.

Public Safety committee  When I made that statement, I said that it “may” be considered discriminatory. I was bringing attention to the fact that security regimes have had a disproportionate impact on members of the Muslim community. I think that's the elephant in the room. Nobody wants to say it out lou

Public Safety committee  Certainly. Thank you. I would concur with my colleague James Kafieh's comments in terms of the chilling effect it could potentially have on members of the Canadian Muslim community. Extraordinary powers are always open to abuse. We don't have to look back far in history to find

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the invitation to appear before you today to share our views on Bill C-17, an act to amend the Criminal Code (investigative hearing and recognizance with conditions). My name is Ihsaan Gardee, and I am the executive director of the Canadian Council on American-Islam

Transport committee  We would agree that the secure flight program only requires those three pieces of information. What we would be recommending is that Transport Canada work with the airlines to avoid excessive disclosures of personal information. Currently the Aeronautics Act allows the Governor i

Transport committee  Some of these challenges have been documented in the high-profile cases, but some of the information collected through the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group's Clearinghouse project clearly shows, from the people who have been responding, that they face various diffic

Transport committee  I would echo Professor Salter's concern about the lack of redress. As he rightly pointed out, if this bill must pass, it is in this area that we should be looking to work with our EU partners to try to negotiate robust and accessible redress mechanisms for Canadians who are preve

Transport committee  Good morning. Bonjour. I'd like to thank the committee for the invitation to appear before you today about Bill C-42, an act to amend the Aeronautics Act. I am joined today by Khalid Elgazzar, a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relati