Public Safety committee  Not from the federal government.

Public Safety committee  It depends, and it's a local arrangement. The country is responsible for--

Public Safety committee  The major concern of a civil liberties association is to ensure that rights and freedoms advocacy continues to be valued, honoured and integrated into the judicial system. The day when 20 international leaders meet in Toronto but no one is there to express their enthusiasm, suppo

Public Safety committee  One of the aspects that trouble us is the bail conditions that prevent people from subsequently demonstrating. We are indeed seeing a lack of clear knowledge or appreciation of the role of the freedom to demonstrate, which is definitely an integral part of our democracy.

Public Safety committee  Yes, you can.

Public Safety committee  We have not looked at a comparison of the costs. Our expertise relates to the cost to civil liberties. We know there will be additional costs because there are two large class action suits that have been instituted, so--

Public Safety committee  We don't know what happened at the G-20, but certainly I think the extent to which there is some separation...Ted Hughes recommended that there should be no political interference. I agree with that. That's correct.

Public Safety committee  The position of the Civil Liberties Association is that we need a public inquiry because we do not understand how what happened, happened. I think that's one of the points, that it's unclear how the policing tone changed at 5 o'clock on the Saturday. We were there; we saw it. It

Public Safety committee  Yes, including the RCMP.

Public Safety committee  Yes, Calgary.

Public Safety committee  We think there should be a full public inquiry to disclose what happened and what went wrong here. In our view, it's not sufficient for the federal government not to be part of this public inquiry, because all the current reviews that are going on now are partial. A key element

Public Safety committee  Our report does say that we need to look at this more broadly. If we don't want another G-20 we need to take action to change the legal framework surrounding these decisions. That is a legitimate thing to ask of the government. The Criminal Code certainly did not help in those ci

Public Safety committee  I want to make a correction. In our report we ask for compensation for both the store owners and the people who were affected. I want that to be quite clear.

Public Safety committee  I want to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to appear. I will speak to four main points. The first is the constitutional vulnerability of the bill. The second is that it is not consistent with the international regime currently in effect.

Public Safety committee  We have been approached by many families who have loved ones not only in the United States but elsewhere. The only point I want to make here is that when you look at some of the provisions that are in the bill.... There are two that I'll mention. One of the criteria is whether th