Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing.
Of course, we are engaged in a study of air security and safety. I appreciate your opening intervention and the recognition that there are threats to our national security. I think there's a certain amount of self-evidence to a statement like that.
Further in your intervention you say that security and rights can both be respected. The challenge with air safety is how to increase our productivity while maintaining security and charter compliance. I have a few questions along those lines and want to probe some of the things you talked about.
I want to start with the issue of behavioural analysis. Let me see if I can explore where this may touch on an area that, for example, may produce a justifiable discrimination.
If a security agency has credible intelligence of a specific threat that may involve country of origin....
Sorry, I'm complicating my issues here. Let me put behavioural analysis aside. Let me explore the issue of a justifiable discrimination based on one of the grounds.
If a credible piece of evidence contains country of origin that may imply a certain ethnicity emanating from that country, could that be deemed a justifiable discrimination with respect to security?
Yes or no...or can you explore that a little bit with me? I just want to see how that would be handled under the Canadian Human Rights Act.