Public Safety committee  Yes. I would also go back to where Professor Forcese started. If this committee did a 200-page report on what went wrong on October 22, 2014, that would provide for more informed policy-making. The Canadian public would be extremely interested in it, and it would also help to edu

Public Safety committee  Yes. Also, to go back to your colleague's prior question, one of the reasons I think we can jog is that we have all this expertise with SIRC and the CSE commissioner. One of my concerns is that if you make the interactions between the new committee and those existing review bo

Public Safety committee  Exactly. Stovepipes and silos work to the detriment of both propriety and efficacy. As Professor Forcese said, we started off with the efficacy picture. You need to have something that can break down those silos. There's a certain amount of stickiness in this legislation that p

Public Safety committee  Of those, my preference would be for the committee, given the need for the committee to work as a collegial body.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I agree, and ministerial decisions, particularly those as under subclause16(2) that require reasons, I think are better than the categorical sorts of exceptions in clause 14.

Public Safety committee  I would support an election of the chair. It wouldn't be the first amendment on my priority list. One of the things I tried to point out is that the combination of prime ministerial appointment of the chair and then prime ministerial redaction, even subject to a designation, are

Public Safety committee  Clause 29 does look as if it could accommodate that, but the other thing I was trying to get across was that the secretariat needs to be robust and it should not be based on a permanent civil service model. One of the lessons of public inquiries in Canada is, when you bring peopl

Public Safety committee  I agree with Mr. Atkey that in the best of worlds you would use this under section 38. Of course, section 38 itself has a ministerial veto, a controversial ministerial veto, one that has not been exercised to my knowledge, but it is there. Section 38 also calls for some light jud

Public Safety committee  Yes, exactly.

Public Safety committee  Yes, if there was only one amendment, it would probably be to clause 14, that is, to take out paragraph (g), just to argue that the new parliamentary committee needs the same access as SIRC has, but also needs to work as closely as possible with SIRC, the CSE commissioner, and th

Public Safety committee  Picking up from my colleague who addressed the access to information issues, I want to stress the importance of making the committee as non-partisan as possible and ensure that it has as much expert assistance as it needs. Starting with subclause 4(2) of Bill C-22, I think the

Public Safety committee  Yes, I am.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and we also recommend that it be amended to make it crystal clear that recipients must operate within their existing mandates and legal authorities, because although we thought that was reasonably clear, the green paper actually makes it more ambiguous.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.