Public Safety committee  In my view, if you have an imminent peril, the investigative hearing is not going to be the way that the police officers are going to choose to go. I think because of the wait and the difficulty in managing the hearing, this will not be a useful tool. Part of the analysis here

Public Safety committee  Well, actually, you are distorting the normal practice of the Criminal Code. In our view, the use of the regular Criminal Code is better for many reasons: police officers know how to deal with this; they are trained in this; judges know how to behave in this. So the way in whic

Public Safety committee  Well, there are a couple of things. I think if it does not...it must be bounded by safeguards. Part of the problem with not prosecuting and simply creating risk profiles and not using the Criminal Code is that you certainly lack the public scrutiny on it. You lack the oversight t

Public Safety committee  Yes, although what is interesting and what I was trying to point out is that the review in the U.K. was indeed to reduce the powers that had been used in this context. The report was to change the way in which control orders were being used in the—

Public Safety committee  Yes, I think there are certainly differences in the details of the different aspects of it.

Public Safety committee  I'd like to respond to your question about this offence.

Public Safety committee  Sure. I personally am very concerned. My previous work was on victims defence work, so I think.... The idea that there's opposition between civil libertarians and victims is not, I think, the right reflection, because indeed nobody wants the wrong person to be caught, or the sy

Public Safety committee  I invite the committee to take into account the very wise remarks of Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, QC, from England, who was asked to review the work of the committee that had been charged with reviewing the anti-terrorism measures adopted in the U.K. I put it to you that his a

Public Safety committee  I will begin my presentation in French, and then continue in English. I want to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The association has existed for almost 50 years, and its mandate still consists in taking a principled stand on issues facin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But you have to be careful, I think, that indeed it is done with the proper safeguards so that the Maher Arar case does not happen again.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's always a case. No system will be perfect. I think we know that. We're trying to improve the system. That's why we are saying to invest a little bit on the accountability side, so that you get better intelligence.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is also a matter of economics, which is something the committee will have to take into account as well. The more access to Canada becomes limited, the more Canadian tourism and the Canadian economy will be affected. It is a matter of balance between certain interests. I thi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To the extent that there's no accountability mechanism to CBSA, our point is that you should do it. You should really put in your recommendations that any time you increase power, you should increase the accountability regime. It's just good governance. To the extent that you ar

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Any mechanism to determine people's identity is not in itself wrong. What you have to ensure is that there are some procedural safeguards around it and that you balance the privacy interests of the people and so on. We always want to have accountability. For us, accountability is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You need to ensure that it's being deployed in a context where you meet accountability needs and you meet good governance and legality requirements. We also think there should be a prior assessment by the privacy commissioners on how to manage the data bank to ensure that it cann