Let me use these last remaining moments to take you to our recommendations. We have two.
First, we are asking that the no-fly list, formerly known as the passenger protect program, be ended. We found that it continues to cause serious damage to Canadian families and fails to provide effective remedy or recourse, as you're going to hear from our colleague beside me.
The NCCM continues to receive reports from individuals affected by the no-fly list, people who have had difficulty travelling for months or years, both domestically and internationally. While immediate relief is necessary for those currently listed for erroneous or invalid reasons, we expressly endorse the recommendations that the No Fly List Kids coalition is going to bring.
Our view remains that no amount of tinkering can solve the underlying problem, which is that the no-fly list is one of the most damaging instruments of racial and religious profiling currently in place in this country. It is the national security analogue to carding in the urban policing context. Since its implementation, it has caused so much damage without any proven or demonstrable benefit that we simply cannot justify it in our rule of law democracy. It was an interesting experiment, but its time has come to an end.
What Canada needs is not a list of banned flyers, but rather stronger investigative and intelligence work so that people who present actual risks or who have committed actual crimes are dealt with through the criminal justice system. Anything beyond that is dangerous profiling with proven harm to members of our community and others.
The second recommendation is to reform CSIS. With respect to CSIS, we hold that it cannot be given additional powers, given the current lack of faith and trust in the institution on the part of many Canadians. There's simply too much evidence of systemic bias and discrimination to ask Canadian Muslims and our fellow citizens to trust that any new powers will not be exercised improperly and discriminatorily. In fact, all of the evidence suggests that any new powers will be exercised improperly and discriminatorily.
As has been mentioned, abuses in national security disproportionately affect Canadian Muslims, though not only Canadian Muslims, and this is not a coincidence. What is needed is a thorough culture shift within the national security agencies before Canadians can trust that bias and stereotypes are not driving investigations and will not shape the way the proposed new powers to disrupt are deployed.