Transport committee  The body scanners are not your decision but the TSA's decision, which Canada is just following. My best advice is stop the purchase, but I know they will not do that. I want to tell you about profiling. I have no bad connotation about behavioural profiling. I don't think behav

Transport committee  Absolutely. You're right; the Ben Gurion airport, which nobody wants as a gold standard, and I believe it, is run like a business. They actually make money on security. You won't believe it, but they do. They are so efficient and so good that people who are going through security

Transport committee  I fail to understand how we're now comparing profiling with body scanners. They're not the same equipment to do the same thing. Body scanners are just an extension of the regular X-ray machines. And they do nothing. Let me tell you something. X-ray machines and body scanners ar

Transport committee  Well, there is a system. I hate to say it again and again, but there is a system. We have a platform by which we can alert the cellphone of a CATSA employee when somebody is a suspect. We have a system that automatically--I say it again, automatically--detects threats. We have a

Transport committee  You know, now we're going into a system that I certainly don't approve of and you want me to explain why it doesn't work. That's very difficult for me. I can tell you that the threat levels in Israel are going up and down a thousand times more than they go up and down in North

Transport committee  I don't think that's the question. The question is do you have a system, not the level of security. You are confusing two different issues--the system and the level. I agree that Israel has a very, very high level of security, which it needs, but the system fundamentally should

Transport committee  Good morning. I want to apologize. I have a little head cold, but I will try to stay online as much as I can. First of all, it is an honour and a pleasure to be with you today. I welcome Professor Salter's viewpoint. I've seen it many times. We are definitely on two sides of th