Public Safety committee  I can't comment on the practice of how often the person is voluntarily.... And what does “voluntarily” mean, when the alternative is detention?

Public Safety committee  It would have to be a new one. The recognizance with conditions can be a maximum of 12 months, and at the expiry of 12 months that recognizance would end, unless, of course, the authorities made an application for a new one. However, it would have to be a new application.

Public Safety committee  As the minister said, Canadian law is not without precedent in this area. We have many years of experience with the peace bond process, which is very similar, whereby a person is ordered to appear before a court for the court to determine whether conditions should be put on the i

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I think the minister answered that question already. The government does not intend to have a monitoring system. The minister said this is like any other criminal offence. Information comes to the attention of the police; upon further investigation, if the police have

Public Safety committee  Well, as the minister indicated, there is no record. There's no intention to keep a record of why people leave the country. When I go into a bank, there's no record as to why I walk into a bank. When I walk into a bank to make a deposit, to make a withdrawal, or to rob the bank,

Public Safety committee  The types of conditions are very much contextual to the circumstances. You gave examples of misuse of a computer. Parliament has dealt previously with situations of imposing conditions on people who use computers to communicate with children for the purposes of luring, for exampl

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the minister indicated, all the rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are subject to section 1 of the charter, which provides that the rights are guaranteed, subject to reasonable limits imposed by a free and democratic society. The vi

Public Safety committee  The purpose is to provide the police with some power to disrupt preparatory acts before the police would actually have the ability to effect an arrest.

Public Safety committee  During the investigative hearing, yes. It's clear in the bill that--

Public Safety committee  That's a decision the police would have to make. If they have the evidence to effect an arrest, then I would think, as you say, they would effect the arrest. If they don't have the evidence yet to effect an arrest, this would give them the power to disrupt preparatory conduct and

Public Safety committee  The investigative hearing was used, as far as we know, once, in the course of the Air India trial in 2003, I believe it was. The preventive arrest powers, as far as we know, have not been used. We never used them in that time period.

Public Safety committee  Factually, we've been lucky and have not had a terrorist incident.

Public Safety committee  Based on the facts that have presented themselves to date, but I can't talk about what the facts might be in the future.

Public Safety committee  That's the issue. That's what this committee has to decide. We can indicate where there's a gap, and I've indicated where the gap is. I think you and I agree where there is a gap in the law. The question of whether you believe that gap should be filled or not is a policy questio

Public Safety committee  If you're asking me about certain things they told me or did not tell me, I'm not at liberty to tell you what the security agencies—