Madam Speaker, to make it clear, I never said the authorities should not look at the passengers on the list and then see if there were known terrorists among them. What is not okay is for them to take the list and run it through their background checks for absolutely anybody and everybody; not terrorists. I am talking about anybody and everybody.
I do not see this as being just a problem regarding airline, rail or bus passengers. I can see the RCMP or the legal authorities then saying that they better get the patient lists of everybody in a hospital, just in case there is somebody in there they want to get. They may want to get a list of all students in universities, just in case there are some of them they may be looking for. They may want lists of differing groups.That is what is wrong.
If we go out there to seek and find, sure enough we are going to find someone one time, but in the whole scheme of things we are jeopardizing the civil liberties and the rights of privacy of everybody else. Canadians do not want to give up that much of their privacy and that many of their rights for the sake of the government facade.