Public Safety committee  Again, the act itself is only about disclosure. When you look at it, it's very similar to the passenger protect program, the secure air travel act sections on protecting sensitive information on an appeal or judicial review. The Canadian passport order goes into more detail, es

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I'll try. The first thing to say is that the legislative changes contained in the budget implementation act are really around the disclosure of information and protecting sensitive information as the decisions are made. The changes to the Canadian passport order that were announ

Public Safety committee  It's very similar to the discussion we had with the secure air travel act. There are very similar provisions in that, as well as within the changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act proposed in division 15. Often the cases around passport revocation, refusal, or can

Public Safety committee  Certainly, if it were a sensitive source, if the name of the person who has offered information, say, to a law enforcement or intelligence body were made public, obviously that person's life could be at risk. If the information coming from our allies were made public, then obviou

Public Safety committee  For sure.

Public Safety committee  That's right.

Public Safety committee  I'll try to do that and I'll look to my colleagues to support me here. Just to be clear, the reference to temporary investigation was with respect to cancellation of passports. Cancellation is seen as to allow an investigation to continue. The person is given notice—or not, dep

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm happy to provide a brief overview of the measures being proposed in Bill C-59, specifically with regard to the prevention of terrorist travel act in tandem with the proposed changes to the Canadian passport order. The proposed amendments underline the g

Public Safety committee  I think it would have a massive negative operational impact to only allow the Service to undertake activities that are illegal. Without any recognition of the impact on the Charter and so on, it's not clear that it would be worth moving forward with the bill.

Public Safety committee  Just to be clear, I'm from Public Safety, as is Ms. Banerjee. Mr. Duffy is from Justice.

Public Safety committee  Yes. Not New Zealand, but the others, Australia, U.K., U.S., absolutely have equivalent powers. The minister mentioned that in his remarks when he was at the committee.

Public Safety committee  We've been able to discuss this with our Transport colleagues. They do not believe legislation is necessary. If required, something like that could be done in regulation.

Public Safety committee  A lot of work and a very long time went into developing the bill with Transport Canada and with all the national security communities. It was not recommended that this go into the bill. One issue that you would have is that on international inbound flights, CATSA has no authority

Public Safety committee  I think we discussed this earlier. The threshold is reasonable grounds to suspect that an individual would be a threat to transportation security or the other provisions in the act linked to terrorist travel that are defined in the Criminal Code. So it's reasonable grounds to sus