Citizenship and Immigration committee  My name is Maureen Basnicki, and my family is one of 24 Canadian families who lost a loved one on 9/11. As co-founder of the Canadian Coalition Against Terror, I would like to express my support for the broad principles of Bill C-425. Some of Canada's closest allies have enacted

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Collacott has just said what I would like to reinforce. It has been my experience, certainly, that I can't go after the terrorists. In my case, they committed suicide. But I look at other accused terrorists with Canadian citizenship, and in my lens it has been very painful to

Justice committee  I must say I was scheduled to be here in October, the day after the terrorist attacks in Ottawa, so that was a real trigger for me. Today I come here after the attack in Jerusalem. The co-founder of CCAT, the Canadian Coalition Against Terror, is in Israel at this moment in time

Justice committee  With the translation I understood the question to be: do I think that Canadians who are victimized outside the borders of our country still should be classified as victims? Absolutely. Certainly, perpetrators of crimes are still demanding their rights as Canadian citizens when t

Justice committee  Yes. The numbers are small. You'll hear that 24 Canadians were killed in 9/11. Most of them lived in the United States, so they came under a different umbrella. There's only a handful of us, and I'm the outspoken one. Most of them are too traumatized. They were just shocked that