Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question, Ms. Michaud. In our written brief we do provide a concise red line for how we would suggest approaching the question of third party complaints. We're happy to see that third parties can, under the current draft of the bill, bring complaints with the express written consent of an individual.

Public Safety committee  I will say that I believe we can learn something from the experience of the RCMP and the CRCC in terms of its efforts to engage publicly with different linguistic communities across the country and ensure that they feel the commission is accessible to receiving complaints from them.

Public Safety committee  We certainly agree that the question of culture change at CBSA is something critical. That does relate to our first and second recommendations, really, in terms of the need for the commission to be able to receive systemic complaints and for those complaints to come from third parties.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to testify before the committee today. I am here with my colleague, Aviva Basman, representing the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. We are a national organization engaged in advocacy, strategic litigation and education to promote and defend the rights of refugees and immigrants in Canada.