Transport committee  I certainly agree with you, sir, that the risk assessment applies to national security. We don't use the language of risk when we're talking about human rights, sir. In terms of my general statements, of course, what I'm saying is that I'm reluctant to make general statements a

Transport committee  We do receive complaints from individuals. I don't know if we have the number here of complaints we have received.... Yes, we have the number: we have received 12 complaints in the last few years that involve racial profiling. There are currently two complaints before the Cana

Transport committee  Certainly we would welcome the opportunity to be engaged at the front end with any security organization developing a screening technique. When we are involved at the front end, we are able to in effect give guidance as to whether or not--to use your example--the questions being

Transport committee  In this hypothetical, we don't know the questions being asked. What if the questions being asked were related to one of our eleven grounds of discrimination? One would hope not.

Transport committee  Sir, you have referred to the behavioural profiling done by the Israelis. Behavioural profiling is not one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act. So a case such as that would not proceed to the tribunal for a hearing. You've also mentioned

Transport committee  What I am saying is that the type of behavioural profiling I mentioned in my opening statement--buying a one-way ticket, paying cash, not checking baggage and this sort of thing, or the way someone is acting, in a fugue, for example, at an airport--is not based on one of the proh

Transport committee  As I said in my remarks, the two can and must be found to be compatible. In other words, we have to find ways to look after collective needs while we are respecting individual rights as well. As I mentioned, section 15 of our act does provide that there can be justification for

Transport committee  Of course national safety does come first. However, I think maybe we're working on this concept in a different way. I'm talking—

Transport committee  What I'm expressing to you is our concerns over racial profiling. I'm not talking to you about national security, but rather, how we can engage and effectively have a secure nation while not discriminating unless it's justifiable to do so. It's impossible, really, to give a bla

Transport committee  Well, I'm sorry that you're shocked, sir, because we take our authorities from the Canadian Human Rights Act, which provides us with the requirement that we look at justification. Also, there is section 1 of the charter, which guarantees rights and freedoms subject to such reas

Transport committee  The role of the commission in this instance, when we're talking about someone bringing forward a complaint, is for the commission to screen that complaint to determine whether or not it warrants further inquiry and whether or not it's in our jurisdiction. Consequently, if it is w

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I am very pleased to have this opportunity to contribute to the committee's study on aviation safety and security. As the chair mentioned, my colleagues joining me here today are Dr. Charles Théroux, who is our director of research, and Monette

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. They are in various stages of being processed. I don't know how many we've actually sent to the tribunal.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right, and we have a couple of issues. One is whether funding is a service. The other is whether registration is a service. Then there's another argument about comparator groups, but that's--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Obviously we're doing our best, sir. When we took on this project.... When the law was changed and we received this mandate, we had funding given to us over a five-fiscal-year period. That's temporary. I think we've added something like five full-time equivalents to our staff for