Public Safety committee  I think you have to look at the jurisdictional issue, but I think you need to look across government services. I don't think this is a question of spending more money; I think there's lots of money being spent in this country at every level of government in terms of providing ser

Public Safety committee  I agree with Mr. McFee. It is a question of balance. There needs to be some deterrence. The Canadian Police Association and the police officers I represent on the front line support there being a strong response to those who wreak havoc in our communities and engage in activiti

Public Safety committee  We completely support that. All across this country police agencies are involved in alternative dispute resolution processes. It's interesting. There was a recent study out of New York, for example. New York seems to be bucking the trend in terms of the number of police officers

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. What I would say in response is that Canada is the only country that doesn't have some kind of national body or holding area for the research that is being done, so I guess I would use the same words to describe research done in other countries. When

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I do have an opening statement that I'll start out with. Hopefully there will then be lots of time for questions. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to appear before you this morning to discuss th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, very capable, and we see that occur on a regular basis. I think it's correct to say there were administrative issues with Mr. Gayle and how his deportation was processed. But I'm going to argue that the longer people have to appeal and the longer the appeal goes on, the grea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we have enough of our own in this country. I don't think we need them to come from elsewhere.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly in my view it could have been—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Drug trafficking is drug trafficking. We've had police officers who've been either seriously injured or killed on duty or in the line of duty by people who aren't even involved in criminal activity at the time. The issue for me as a front line officer and what I get from my mem

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I haven't, and I would be interested to see it. Depending on what definition of a serious criminal is being used, in my comments, I'm using the definition of a serious criminal in the proposed legislation and also the pre-existing one. If we're talking about people who have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I'm in a position to comment on that. I think the more information you have, including on the kinds of crimes that are being committed by these individuals, it would better inform not only the committee but also everyone else who's been discussing Bill C-43 or other

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you directing the question to me?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I would agree. Obviously I'm assuming there would be the appropriate regulations and processes in place to ensure we're dealing with legitimate information with respect to that, but I would agree with that statement.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am by no means an expert, but I would say that based on my experience in the criminal justice system, when you have people appealing, and consuming capacity in the system, perhaps it means that law-abiding people legitimately seeking refugee status or access to immigration to t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. If you have dealt with outreach from communities, when they learn, in some cases, that a convicted war criminal from another part of the world is arriving in our country and in some cases even living in that neighbourhood, it causes a lot of angst in that particular communi