Public Safety committee  I'm Glenn Gilmour, legal counsel with the criminal law policy section of the Department of Justice. I work with Mr. Breithaupt. The terms “promotion” and “advocating” are terms that have been judicially interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada. Promoting was examined by the Su

Public Safety committee  I'll just say that, with the proposed amendment, what we're trying to do is deal with the problem of the potential overlap that had been mentioned in order to ensure that an appropriate punishment can be put on someone who counsels the commission of a specific terrorism offence,

Public Safety committee  This one, yes.

Public Safety committee  For counselling you're trying to counsel someone to commit an offence. The idea is that there would be a person who you're trying to effect, but it doesn't have to have an effect on that person. For example, if I were to counsel you to commit an offence and you're an undercover p

Public Safety committee  My understanding is that you don't have to know specifically who it is you're contacting. You don't have to know the identity of the person who you're contacting. You can counsel generally to a group of people. One particular example in that regard might be.... You may recall the

Public Safety committee  I'm somewhat reluctant to give a legal opinion on that type of issue.

Public Safety committee  I would answer that simply by saying I think what has been proposed would help strengthen the ability and not weaken it. It would strengthen counselling, let's put it that way. It would strengthen the ability to use counselling.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  I'm afraid I'd have to speculate on why it's not being used. It may be, perhaps, as was mentioned, that lack of resources might be an issue. It has been mentioned that section 320.1.... Maybe I'll just set out the parameters of it. Section 320.1 is a specific provision in the C

Justice committee  It's an in rem procedure. No one need be charged with the crime. There's also section 320, which was originally put in the Criminal Code when the offences were created back in 1970—a different time, of course—which allowed for a judge to order the seizure and forfeiture of hate p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You can renew the initial time frame for each authorization. It's a maximum of five years, but it can be renewed.

Justice committee  To add to what my colleague said—and, in fact, what my boss said—section 83.08 essentially freezes property owned or controlled by a terrorist group. It makes it essentially a crime for someone to deal in property that's owned or controlled by a terrorist group. Section 83.09 all