Madam Speaker, I will be brief. I do not understand why the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, who is a a man of law, opposes that motion.
In any country, in any society, arrest warrants must be used with great caution. People's freedom is at stake. We want to make sure that certain basic precautions are taken before the execution of an arrest warrant, namely, we want the individual concerned to be advised in advance and him or her to receive a notice to appear before a warrant is issued.
As we all know, in every democratic society, a judge normally has the power to issue warrants for arrest when there is sufficiently convincing evidence or reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime. In the case of an obvious crime, a police officer is empowered to arrest a person, but this it is not the case here. We must be careful. We cannot give arbitrary powers to a government official who might abuse them.
As for the second motion, we checked the English and French versions of the text, and our research staff did too, and we found that there is a difference between the English and the French versions of this clause.