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

Public Safety committee  Yes, certainly. I think several of our own monitors were searched. The searches were done during the week, throughout the week, I think, and were far removed from around the fence. There were people being detained, people being searched. I did my own tour as part of the monitorin

Public Safety committee  I think we saw some property being removed from bags. Police officers seemed to believe that they were obeying orders or that they had the right to do it. We've documented not only what was happening but what was said, because it seemed to us that there was a fundamental problem

Public Safety committee  Our own monitors were denied the right to counsel when they went to the detention centre. We had someone trying to reach them, a lawyer, and I was trying to reach them through the night, and it was not to be so.

Public Safety committee  Certainly we recognize that it was a difficult job, but in our view, the incidents we saw reached a threshold that was higher than what we should expect. They were certainly not in compliance with the Canadian Constitution.

Public Safety committee  No, we have not.

Public Safety committee  Yes. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson wrote back to us to acknowledge receipt of our report and indicated that the matter had been referred to Minister Toews. We have received some indications from the Auditor General, to whom we provided our report as well, that acknowledged our r

Public Safety committee  Not from the federal government.