Customs Act  Madam Speaker, I rise today to partake in this debate on Bill S-23, an act to amend the Customs Act and to make related amendments to other acts. The bill proposes to streamline legitimate cross border trade and travel through electronic monitoring, self-assessment, advance info

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, he is correct. He did commission the report. The department brought the report forward but he has yet to adopt it. In April of this year the solicitor general was told by CSIS that Canada is not prepared for any terrorist attack. The report recommended that the gove

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, for years we have stood in the House asking the solicitor general to give CSIS and the RCMP the tools they need to protect Canadians, to protect them from all threats, including chemical and biological threats. CSIS has told us of the risk. The RCMP has told us of th

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, the FBI is currently seeking some 200 suspects, potential associates of suspects and potential witnesses in connection with the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. We know that at least one of them, Nabil Al-Marabh, was a refugee claimant in Canada. Do the RCMP

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, what the Canadian public wants to know is that CSIS and the RCMP have the list of 200. It is unfortunate that this suspected terrorist was arrested in Chicago and not in Canada. Yesterday the minister told the House that she does not need to seek the permission of t

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2001  Mr. Speaker, I rise to today to participate in the debate on Bill C-15, an act to amend the Criminal Code and other acts. I really feel as though I am standing to give two or three speeches. This is an omnibus bill that has some very distinct different pieces of legislation with

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2001  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I do not think moving a motion like that after the question and comment portion of the member's speech is in order. I think if you check you will find that it needs to be moved after the time allotted him to speak to the bill.

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, last night on CNN, as has already been brought out, the King of Jordan revealed that his country, not our country, uncovered a series of operations in Europe, in the United States and here in Canada to be carried out by the Osama bin Laden group during the millennium

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, we are not just talking about attacks against Canada. The attacks were to be carried out against the Americans by Ressam who was coming from Canada. The question that came from CSIS yesterday was that personnel has been diminished by 40% over the last seven years. F

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, CSIS revealed today that several years ago it advised the government that were there 350 people and 50 organizations with direct ties to terrorism. The Prime Minister has just suggested that luckily they were not tied to the events in the States. According to CSIS t

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, CSIS Director Ward Alcock warned the Senate committee studying terrorism that there were people living in Canada who had aided and abetted terrorists involved in the attack on the World Trade Center back in 1993. Again I ask a question of the solicitor general. Why

Allotted Day--Anti-Terrorism Legislation  Mr. Speaker, I have a short question for the Minister of Justice. If the evidence pointed that a terrorist, not in this past terrorist attack, carried out an attack in the United States where there were multiple deaths and where the mastermind of such an activity had found safe h

Allotted Day--Anti-Terrorism Legislation  Mr. Speaker, now is the time when we are called to action. Now is not the time to begin a committee structure and do a lot of travelling. Yes, we do need to look at what other countries have done. We need to emulate countries that have provided anti-terrorism, such as the one tha

Allotted Day--Anti-Terrorism Legislation  moved: That this House call upon the government to introduce anti-terrorism legislation similar in principle to the United Kingdom's Terrorism Act, 2000, and that such legislation provide for: the naming of all known international terrorist organizations operating in Canada; a

Attack on the United States  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the critic for defence. We just heard a speech by our Minister of National Defence previous to the hon. member's speech. In that speech, he waxed eloquently about the word war. He talked about not wanting to use the word war. He said that it conju