Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to address the committee on this important topic. I'm a refugee lawyer with the Refugee Law Office, which is a Legal Aid Ontario staff office in Toronto. Before coming to Legal Aid I was in private practice for about seven years with Ja

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure, I will. I can now hear you, but my phone is ringing from your technician. Should I answer it or not?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll just be a second. I apologize. I'm told by the chair of the committee that there is no problem.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, zoom out, thank you. I am told you are seeing too much of me. I'm zoomed in too close. I am going to zoom out.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I apologize for that. I will. The result of this lack of temporality, the lack of a danger assessment, the lack of any transparency or accountability in the assessment of whether groups are terrorist groups under the act results in a completely arbitrary and irrational designati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will. I thought all of that problem with the phone call would give me a little extra time. No?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two other issues I wanted to briefly touch on, and very briefly. One has to do with the detention of children. You have my notes before you, I think. I just want to note that with respect to the detention of children, the statistics that were provided to you by CBSA ne

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Excellent. Thank you very much.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you so much for that opportunity. You had some witnesses earlier in these proceedings who talked to you about the detention of children, and you were given the figure of 227 children detained in one fiscal year. That number was given to you by CBSA. I want to note for you

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, I don't.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There was a report by Janet Cleveland. I think she appeared before you at a previous proceeding. I think she included some discussion and did some research on the number of kids in detention. I'd refer back to that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of course.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. The other comment I wanted to make about detention was in relation to some evidence you got about the monitoring of detention conditions by UNHCR and the Red Cross. I think it was Mr. Davies who asked whether the Red Cross is paid by the Canadian government to do the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Well, there are a few issues. I'll try to limit it. I guess one of the key points is that what Mr. Bissett was talking about is pretty different from what I was talking about. Our subjects are different. I was talking about the problems specifically in the law and i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think they do. If it were workable, it would be fine.