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  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  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

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.

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  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  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

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  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  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  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.