Thank you for appearing before us today.
In June 2007 there was a joint resolution from Canada's privacy commissioners regarding the no-fly list. I'm sure you're familiar with that. I'm not going to read the whole resolution, but there are some very revealing parts that I wanted to highlight. It states, among other things:
The Aeronautics Act does not provide a clear or adequate legislative framework to support the Passenger Protect Program.... Transport Canada has not provided assurances that the Specified Persons List will not be shared with foreign governments or their agents...; The program involves the collection, use, and disclosure of excessive as well as sensitive personal information of travellers.... The program creates real risk of harm to individuals as a result of inaccurate or unreliable information, noting that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently acknowledged a significant concern about the quality of data and its underlying intelligence in U.S. lists...;
The resolution calls on the government to refer the passenger protect program to a committee for full debate and scrutiny. It calls on the government to enact legislative processes to govern the use of a no-fly list, and it calls on the use of the no-fly list to be suspended until these actions have been taken.
Have any of those recommendations been put in place, to your knowledge?