Thank you.
Yes, we agree that this process has felt rushed both in the number of days of study and the amount of time that the study has taken.
As well as being a senior fellow with the Centre for Free Expression, I'm also national coordinator with a coalition called the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. We submitted a brief in English to the committee on Sunday, May 24. We've been told that it will be circulated—hopefully—on Friday.
We understand that it's later in the process and there is a strain on resources, so this isn't a criticism of the hard work that the staff are doing, but the speed at which the study has been progressing. From our experience—and I've been with ICLMG and doing this for 10 years—it's incredibly difficult to get a brief in on time for it to be translated in the amount of time that this study has been progressing. It has been much too short.
We have significant concerns and we have colleagues from other organizations whom we believe should be here today. The Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association came out with an incredible 55-page analysis of this bill, yet it likely is much too late in the process and has come out after amendments were due. This is a grave concern of ours.