In our discussions today I've heard the word “young” and the word “Muslim” used a lot of times. One of the concerns about this legislation does come from both youth and Muslim communities, that whatever the values for preventative action and terrorism, there's a danger of falling into racial profiling and drawing too many people into the net.
The example I'm aware of is Israeli security profiling, which is behaviour-based rather than characteristic-based, so they would look for certain behaviours. Their argument is always that if you use words like “youth” and “Muslim”, you have way too much work to do. You have to weed out way too many people who have nothing to do with this and would never fall into this lens. You need a lens that is much more precise and much more behaviour-based.
I guess my question about these provisions is, how do we not fall into that broader profiling? How do we develop a behaviour-based lens that would work with this?