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Public Safety committee I'm not quite sure how you're using the term “special advocate”, sir. Do you mean special advocate in the national security certificate sense, where we have a lawyer who's a special advocate, or do you mean a particular post?
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee I don't believe we require a special position or a particular appointment of a special advocate who would do nothing but that. Having been closely involved in and having testifed at criminal cases, and having been closely involved in national security certificate cases in the Fed
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee The short answer is that for most of the women in ISIS, the evidence to date appears to show that they wind up in brutalized, distressing relationships where most of the time they want to get back out of the country when they realize how bad it is. For a minority, however, inclu
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Mr. Chairman, honourable members, I worked for a year and a half in Singapore. One of my colleagues there, Haniff Hassan, is regarded as one of the world's experts on deradicalization. In the case of Singapore I think that passport revocation to them is a cut and dried issue, an
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Mr. Chair and honourable members, let me first clarify my own points. My comments on NCCM are not really my own views. It Is the view of the United States State Department that CAIR-CAN, otherwise known as NCCM, is the Canadian chapter of CAIR in the U.S. The founders of CAIR-CAN
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Obviously, there's a problem at hand. I won't go into it any further, but perhaps I can send the clerk a list of 23 different statements made by CAIR-CAN, the U.S. State Department, the United Arab Emirates, and the U.S. court system that CAIR-CAN is in fact the Canadian chapter
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Mr. Chairman, sir, I think that if you're going to tackle the issue of people travelling overseas to become extremists and terrorists, or whatever, and if you're going to tackle the issue here in Canada itself, which is a somewhat different thing, there needs to be a strategic, o
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Good morning, Mr. Chair, and honourable members. Thank you for inviting us here today. Just by way of introduction, let me say that in Canada there are a series of deep networks that have the ideology, infrastructure, and organized financial support to develop multiple avenues o
May 28th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Thank you. I'm no longer a professor. I don't teach anymore although I held that profession in a couple of different countries. First, I'd just like to wholeheartedly endorse Dr. Jasser's comments. What he just said is exactly the truth. I'd also like to add that his comments on
March 25th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin
Public Safety committee Mr. Chairman, honourable members, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your invitation for my being here this evening. I'll talk a little less about terrorism and perhaps a little more about political violence and extremism, and less about over there and more about over here. Pub
March 25th, 2015Committee meeting
Thomas Quiggin