Public Safety committee  Whenever you have a lot of room for arbitrary decisions, there is always the concern that the discretionary power could be used improperly and especially that the public could have that perception. So a family who has lost hope could think that making a financial contribution to

Public Safety committee  That was the fear. The fear is that when you impose a duty to cooperate with law enforcement where you have to recognize the harm you've caused and so on, it does prejudice people who are wrongfully convicted. They're in a catch-22. If they say they're innocent, which they are, t

Public Safety committee  The reason these schemes exist, and the reason so many countries agree to these schemes, is because indeed they see it is to their advantage and to the advantage of their own population. Control over offenders indeed enhances the capacity to manage the risk they pose. That's the

Public Safety committee  Yes, I think there were only 32 in the first year, but things.... We have not said this. We have come here to talk about the amendment of the bill.

Transport committee  I want to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The association has been in existence since 1964 and has been in the service of civil liberties in Canada since that time. It has acquired broad experience with privacy issues. I'm going to add

Transport committee  Yes, there are a couple of possibilities. For example, the exemptions could be time-limited. The way the bill is framed now gives unfettered discretion to the carrier to send or not send the information, as they wish, to comply with a foreign jurisdiction's law. It might be bet

Transport committee  As of now, there's a decision, the Supreme Court v. Ward, that does recognize that when there is a qua breach of constitutional law, it can be indemnified. In our view, I think if we're going to go this route, if a couple of people suffer damages just because we want to support

Transport committee  To provide the right to compensation for the people who will be affected.

Transport committee  I think it's absolutely needed, because that's where the danger lies. You need to keep control over the privacy environment of the country to which you give this information. I think it's incumbent upon parliamentarians to want to keep control over this process.

Transport committee  I think we know quite a bit about the way in which the TSA is working. What are the guarantees that...? I think their safeguards should be in writing, but at the minimum, we want to know how this situation is progressing. For example, in an ideal world, you would have an author

Transport committee  That's one of the reasons why it is being challenged in the U.S. right now.

Transport committee  It's not a huge safeguard, because the no-fly list in the U.S. does not, at this moment, disclose whether you're on the list or not. You may think you're not on the list, and show up at the airport, but once the information is transferred there may be a reason why you are stopped

Transport committee  It's a case before a district court in Oregon. Do you want to answer this...? Okay. It concerns the no-fly list, particularly people who have appeared on the no-fly list. One of the problems with this case is that it's the third time the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Unio

Transport committee  It was in this context that we submitted proposed amendments to restrict the scope of the bill with regard to time, oversight of the bill, to take the pulse, in order to determine somewhat where this is headed. If the U.S. provisions are perhaps ruled unconstitutional, the system

Transport committee  We just submitted it today. I'm going to make sure it is sent to you in French.