Public Safety committee  I was just going to say that if they can cut it off easily, they can leave it in the house, and no one's going to know they left.

Public Safety committee  Yes, they do right now.

Public Safety committee  There are periodic reviews every six months after the last decision, so it's usually about once a year. One of the judges, Justice Dawson, characterized it as a review that, with the person complying, would be cascading towards more fuller liberty than they started out with. It h

Public Safety committee  You're being asked...it's between apples and oranges. They're both bad. As for the year detention, we worked for years, before we went up to the Supreme Court of Canada in Charkaoui, to get rid of the arbitrary detention. We won in front of the Supreme Court of Canada. They said

Public Safety committee  Based on Charkaoui, I don't think any of this meets the test, no.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I think if the person's in compliance for the first six months, there should be an alternative to a GPS and to house arrest, if they're going to put house arrest. I don't think those are appropriate means for most cases. I think you'd look to voice reporting, those kinds of

Public Safety committee  Officers tend to find people quite quickly—a lot of them. You'd have to look at the stats. For sure there are people who have gone underground, and that may be a problem. In those kinds of cases, if you think this might be the kind of person to go underground, then a GPS might b

Public Safety committee  I was saying it should be a higher-up decision. The thing that concerns me right now is that the CBSA officers are imposing voice reporting on people without going before an immigration judge and asking if it's necessary. They're calling everybody and anybody, without any basis

Public Safety committee  No, I represent Mr. Jaballah. I did in the past represent Mr. Mahjoub and Mr. Almrei.

Public Safety committee  Yes. At the moment I have one client who is still on a GPS.

Public Safety committee  Yes, come April he will have been on it for five years. He's married and has six children.

Public Safety committee  No, I'm not saying that. There's a significant amount of money tied up by sureties in his case, both conditional and cash. Sureties are the traditional way of ensuring that people comply with conditions. For instance, if your wife puts up $10,000 and you know she doesn't have $10

Public Safety committee  None whatsoever. In fact in the case I'm still involved in, the security certificate case, the government has conceded that.

Public Safety committee  I think most people would choose it over detention, but it depends on what's with it. If you put a GPS on a kid and say we'll let you out as long as you're home by 11 o'clock, and there's a non-association clause or something, the GPS is going to tell you that the person is home

Public Safety committee  It's because in those cases there are specific geographic areas that you can mark on a map, and then you can track the person. If they go near those areas, you know they're in breach. In that kind of instance, there's a purpose to it. I think with kids who are hanging around with