Thank you.
Thank you all for being here, particularly Mr. Harkat and Mr. Charkaoui, and of course the others as well.
What I'm hearing from all of you, essentially, with the exception of Mr. Zuberi, is that you don't believe we should proceed with Bill C-3. So it may be irrelevant for me to ask you what changes you think we should make to Bill C-3, but I'm going to do that nonetheless, because this is the bill the government has proposed, and because this is the bill we have to make an effort to make better if we can. So all of you can perhaps answer the question of how you would like us to change this bill in one or two or three or four ways.
I know you talked about the special advocate. How is that going to be put together? Who is going to put together the roster? You want to talk about the choice of counsel and whether or not you should have the freedom. I understand that within the roster, the detainee may have the freedom to choose one of the roster. I'm assuming the roster is going to be put together with CBA and others participating, so there will be some independent process.
I would really like to hear from you as to what you think are the two or three or four things you'd like to change that might make this legislation better. Otherwise, we could argue back and forth and try to find out what happened in your situations. That would take a long time, and we don't have that kind of time.