Public Safety committee  If you can't find a judge because you're up in the Arctic, then there is a provision, yes.

Public Safety committee  It could be 25, it could 30 hours, because a judge is not there—

Public Safety committee  —but that is the existing law; that is not new. That is not the new law. You said—

Public Safety committee  As under the existing law.

Public Safety committee  As under the existing law.

Public Safety committee  Under the existing law that applies to criminal charges, a person is to be brought before a judge within 24 hours. Sometimes that may not happen, so the law provides some flexibility. The crown attorney is entitled—

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, may I answer the question, please?

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Under the existing law the crown prosecutor can make an application to the judge that the state needs more time in order to convince the judge as to why the individual should be detained. And the judge is entitled, under the current law in the Criminal Cod

Public Safety committee  This bill is mirrored on the same types of safeguards that exist with respect to persons who are charged. So the same time periods apply.

Public Safety committee  The nature of this provision is that under the current law it applies on arrest. I think I answered earlier that arrest requires that the police have reasonable and probable grounds to believe that an offence will be committed and that a particular individual is the person who wi

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  May I answer the question?

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, with respect to the first question, the police officer has to have suspicion. You can't just do anyone.... The bill makes it clear that there have to be reasonable grounds to suspect that the arrest of this particular person is necessary to prevent the car

Public Safety committee  The current criminal law is that the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that this particular individual is the person who is going to commit the terrorist act.