Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is in response to many briefs, but I refer briefly to the submission of the BC Civil Liberties Association, where they noted that C-51 “Expands an already troubling regime of preventative arrest and detention. Currently the Criminal Code permits preventative arrest in cases where there are reasonable grounds to believe that a terrorist activity will be carried out...”.
We're now significantly lowering that threshold to “may be carried out.” My amendment suggests that we should ensure that the quite extraordinary powers of being able to arrest someone before they do anything be on a standard of “believes on reasonable grounds that a terrorist activity will be carried out imminently”.