Thank you for your question.
As I began to articulate in my brief remarks, and as our colleague from the B.C. Civil Liberties Association correctly noted, in our view the provisions of Bill C-3 will absolutely find their way back to the Supreme Court. They will not meet the requirements of section 7 of the charter. In CCR's views, Bill C-3 is deeply flawed, and it is not compliant with the requirements of the charter.
To focus specifically on the proposed special advocate model, both in a security certificate context and a section 86 context, I think it's very important to note that the Supreme Court, in Charkaoui, did not explicitly endorse the special advocate model. It cited the model, along with a range of other protections, as examples of procedures that are less rights-infringing than a security certificate procedure that was currently in place and under examination by the court.
The court did not say that the special advocate model, and certainly the model proposed in Bill C-3, would meet the requirements of section 7.