Public Safety committee  If I may, I'd respond to your concern about information provided by allies that may not be countries practising torture and the concern that it will squelch information-sharing. Our response to that would be that there's nothing wrong with the information flow per se. It can inde

Public Safety committee  I don't think it's the position of any of us here today—certainly an articulated position—that Canada should have an open door policy. And we understand that by its very nature the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act makes distinctions. What we're speaking about, however, is

Public Safety committee  That's not an open door policy.

Public Safety committee  Actually, as both of our colleagues have suggested, the Criminal Code itself contains a vast range of preventive and sort of pre-emptive measures passed in the aftermath of 9/11, which are ample tools to address genuine security threats. For example, the reason we often hear fr

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  In any regard. But what you can do is marshal the investigative tools that you have in the Criminal Code to get the evidence sufficient to actually prosecute or, in many appropriate cases, extradite if there are actual criminal allegations at play.

Public Safety committee  I'd be glad to respond to your concern. It's certainly true that, by its very nature, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act discriminates in all kinds of ways. It's inherently about discrimination in terms of managing Canada's immigration program according to certain object

Public Safety committee  I think, actually, not only I, but the Supreme Court of Canada has looked at the credibility of those assertions in the case of Mr. Suresh, one of the security certificate individuals named in that group of six, and the Supreme Court of Canada found that there was indeed a prima

Public Safety committee  But I would like to know why—

Public Safety committee  If I may, it is helpful to note that many countries in Europe and elsewhere have resorted to the criminal law process in their domestic jurisdictions with far greater frequency than Canada has. That doesn't mean that those countries don't adopt immigration procedures from time to

Public Safety committee  There was one other point I wanted to make, if I may, which was to respond to your suggestion that security certificate procedures aren't used all that frequently in the broad scheme of things, so why are we all up in arms about it--after all, it doesn't affect that many people.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. The CCR has urged the government to adopt much more expansive oversight mechanisms and measures to ensure accountability, and that's consistently included in all our briefs.

Public Safety committee  If I may just point something out, the government has suggested that it's sufficient in Bill C-3 that the judge has broad discretion to make numerous orders. It's the CCR's view, and I think the view of my colleagues, that it's not sufficient to respond to these concerns by point

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. As I began to articulate in my brief remarks, and as our colleague from the B.C. Civil Liberties Association correctly noted, in our view the provisions of Bill C-3 will absolutely find their way back to the Supreme Court. They will not meet the requ

Public Safety committee  I would like to begin my remarks by pointing the committee's attention in the direction of some historical context, namely the long history of problems and mistakes made by security intelligence agencies in this country, whether we're speaking about the RCMP or CSIS. We can look