Public Safety committee  Yes, two are security certificate cases and one is a criminality case.

Public Safety committee  Let me make it clear. These guys were already found to be at risk. These people were refugees. They were not claimants.

Public Safety committee  Before my clients were put on GPS, I would have said that yes, it's preferable. The Supreme Court of Canada even said that in the Charkaoui case. Having gone through five years with the problems my clients have experienced because of the conditions—not just GPS, but the other h

Public Safety committee  I don't know enough about how you can get out of the GPS. None of my clients has tried to do that, so I don't know how easy it is to cut it. I would assume that if you can cut the bracelet off, you'd just leave it in the house. Nobody would know you have left. The reason they kno

Public Safety committee  If my client came to see me, the GPS didn't work. CBSA would either have to know that he or she was coming to see me—so they would know it wasn't going to work; otherwise they would be concerned.... The GPS has put my client 30 kilometres away from where he actually was, because

Public Safety committee  Let me get this straight: we don't need to add anything. They can put GPS on people now. My client, the one who was being deported for criminality, was put on a GPS bracelet by an immigration division member. My security certificate cases were put on GPS by a Federal Court judge.

Public Safety committee  The other tools have worked for as long as I've been practising law, and I'm sure before I started practising law more than 30 years ago now. They have been for the most part pretty effective. In the few cases in which GPS has been imposed.... It's only a few cases; they haven'

Public Safety committee  Yes. I think if you want to try to make sure the person will comply, put it on for six months and then evaluate the case and take it off at that point. You don't leave it on for five years.

Public Safety committee  Under the convention, a person who is in need of protection can apply to a state to be recognized as a refugee. Until people are recognized as refugees, they can't be sent back to their home countries. They are treated as refugees until a determination is made. When a determinati

Public Safety committee  Let me try to answer your concerns this way. First of all, we're not a police state, I'm sorry, and I don't want to become one. Secondly, I'm not saying that you don't have controls on immigrants. You can have controls on persons who have no status in Canada. I'm just saying th

Public Safety committee  I'm not saying you made that number up. What I'm saying is that because some people have breached, you don't assume that everybody else has to have the same conditions. Let me just say one thing. I don't know—I'm not an expert—about pedophiles. I just suggested that. I do know

Public Safety committee  No, it's fine.

Public Safety committee  These people are being followed, but they're not. That's the thing that's so silly about it, as in the case of Hassan Almrei. He was on the GPS. He didn't have a family to go out with, so he was stuck at home. He was allowed to go pray if he took a taxi, but otherwise, for the mo

Public Safety committee  I want to be very careful about what I say. I am not advocating it for everybody. Most people comply with removal orders, to my knowledge. I have clients who lose their cases, and they get on the plane and leave Canada voluntarily. But if there are cases where there's a real co

Public Safety committee  My clients have never tried to cut them off. I do know that they're uncomfortable to wear on a long-term basis. One of my clients kept getting a rash from it. He had to wear socks, and they had to change it to the other foot, so there are problems with them. I don't know how easy