Public Safety committee  Very briefly, after that vicious personal attack.

Public Safety committee  Let me say three things. I don't view this as a piece of legislation or that it's about ISIS or al Qaeda. It's about providing the capacity for our security agencies to do their job. It's my fundamental view that wherever that can be done within the context of the Canadian Charte

Public Safety committee  We all have a hierarchy of concerns. The one that troubles me the most is the one that allows a judge to set aside the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I think that's the kind of fundamental excess that can lead to other difficulties. I'm not troubled by the ag

Public Safety committee  It wouldn't have been my most serious excess in the bill. My most serious excess is the provision that would allow a judge with respect to lawful interruption to set aside the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That is a principle which I think is overdone. It's excessive, it's un

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Throughout recent post-war history, rapidly drafted and on occasion knee-jerk new laws, or quickly deployed old laws during times of apparent or possible emergency are often flawed. This is not because of any inappropriate intent by the government of the