To my knowledge, for now, RCMP officials have merely reassured us that they have taken to account and will implement a certain number of recommendations contained in the O'Connor report. However, there is no mechanism to guarantee that this is indeed the case. There is no proof that changes have been made.
That is why, in the absence of an effective, arm's length surveillance mechanism, we will not be confident at all that security services are respecting the fundamental rights entrenched in the Charter, that Canadian citizens are adequately safeguarded against what happened to Mr. Arar, Almalki, Mr. Nureddin and Mr. Abou-Elmaati and what is happening right now to Mr. Abousfian Abdelrazik.