As you probably know, our government puts a lot of importance on ensuring the safety and security of our citizens while also preserving their fundamental rights, which are protected in our human rights legislation, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We recently had the Canadian Civil Liberties Association testify. These are their recommendations:
[It would be appropriate to include] an amendment to add a preamble similar to that...in the recent national security legislation, Bill C-59, and similar to that...in section 3 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act...both of [which] explicitly identify the responsibility of customs enforcement officers to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that safeguards the rights and freedoms of Canadians and that respects the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
All of our legislation obviously is governed by the charter. Do you see a benefit to adding a preamble to this legislation, as per their suggestion?