Public Safety Committee on Oct. 25th, 2023

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

I'm offering it as a subamendment, so we can hopefully get both done in one shot.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

We'll get the French version.

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

The wording would be “six months after March 31 each year”.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Mr. Julian, the clerk would like to ask you a question.

[Philippe Méla, Legislative Clerk]

Do you want to keep “after the end of each fiscal year” or make it just “each year”?

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

I'm not sure what line in the bill you are referring to.

[Philippe Méla]

It's at line 18 on page 8 in the French version.

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

We would keep the words “within the first six months” as proposed in the government's amendment, but then the words “after the end of each fiscal year” would be replaced by “after March 31 each year”.

[Philippe Méla]

Okay.

In English, it would be the same thing. You would replace “after the end of each fiscal year” with “after March 31 each year”.

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

Yes.

[Philippe Méla]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

I think we're clear about the wording.

Is there any further discussion on this amendment?

Go ahead, Ms. O'Connell.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

Can I just get clarity that “within six months after March 31 of each year” is going to be added to our amendment and is going to replace NDP-8?

Okay. That's perfect. We're fine with that.

(Subamendment agreed to)

(Amendment as amended agreed to)

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

That means that BQ-0.2 cannot be moved, because it is identical.

That bring us to NDP-9.

Mr. Julian, go ahead.

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

Thank you.

This amendment applies to clause 13, with respect to specifying the number of complaints filed, by replacing line 32 on page 8 with the following:

plaints, including those, if any, disposed of through the reconciliation process with Indigenous peoples;

Breaking Barriers Together also made this recommendation. It applies to the Canada Border Services Agency. Needless to say, it raises the manner in which issues related to the RCMP are addressed; in the bill, it is dealt with mainly at the provincial level. What I am proposing here is to mention the agency, the way complaints are handled, and the reconciliation process.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Thank you, Mr. Julian.

Is there any discussion on this?

Mr. Shipley, go ahead.

[Doug Shipley, Conservative, Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, ON]

Very briefly, yes, we think this is a good amendment. I will be supporting this.

(Amendment agreed to)

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

That brings us to LIB-1.

Go ahead, Ms. O'Connell.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

This amendment will add (e.1) and it will read:

set out the number of matters or complaints that were referred to the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency under subsections 31(2), 52(8) and 53(4)

To quickly speak to this, this was in response to a request that the annual report would require the chairperson to include a line about how many investigations were referred to NSIRA. It was indicated in testimony that this is already being done, but requiring it would have the benefit of transparency.

(Amendment agreed to)

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

This brings us to G-2.

Again, we have Ms. O'Connell.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

Or anyone.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Or anyone. I'm sorry. Share the load.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

I'll look forward to that, anyone.

This adds under proposed paragraph 13(2)(f).... If the legislative clerk wants to, he can let me know if that's wrong. It contains data about complaints, including disaggregated data. The change is:

demographic and

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Is there any discussion on this amendment?

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

Again, it's just to ensure that it's not just race-based data. It's that demographic data also be disaggregated. It should be pretty clear.