Public Safety committee  Something tells me that I will probably not be able to get on my flight back to Toronto this evening.

Public Safety committee  If I could, I'll add a little bit of extra context on the state of journalism in this country. First of all, as the panel's resident millennial, I suppose—

Public Safety committee  —I'd like to say that my generation does consume news ravenously. There's more of an appetite out there for news than there ever has been. The problem is that in our country the news industry has literally been decimated, if not more than that. I mean that in the literal sense. A

Public Safety committee  Yes, I would certainly say so. We funded the news poverty project at Ryerson University. I would encourage everyone to take a look at it if you want to see a stark example of how many dozens of newspapers, broadcasters, and online outlets have closed, and how few have opened acro

Public Safety committee  Again, I agree with this. This bill is much 80% a step in the right direction. There's just 20% there of ways that it could be improved, but we should not let that 20% prevent its passage. In regard to this, a lot of people would argue that ISIS is a crisis that the country is

Public Safety committee  To bring in the international perspective on this, for decades there have been these protections in almost every other Western democracy in the world. Germany, the U.K., Australia, Holland, and 37 states in the United States all had these protections. Basically almost every count

Public Safety committee  I think that really is crucial. Again, I believe that the bill in its present form is still worth passing. I would strongly recommend that the committee adopt this amendment by Mr. Dubé. A lot of times I've heard people say that just because someone tweets doesn't mean they shou

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I'm in a very privileged position in my job, where I get to know the majority of journalists, at least in Toronto. So I know a lot of people who write for them. One of their main freelancers at the moment is a guy whose main career was as a political staffer and then

Public Safety committee  Including the CBC, which also uses freelancers.

Public Safety committee  I encourage that.

Public Safety committee  Yes. We certainly feel that if the police suspect that a journalist has actually committed a crime this type of immunity would not apply in that case. But, again, to echo what the Media Coalition is saying, the fact that there may be suspicion that a crime has been committed, tha

Public Safety committee  We haven't supplied an entire amendment. We deferred to the Media Coalition in that regard.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I apologize for being late. I think we've all had experiences with Porter Airlines before. Thank you for allowing me to testify. I am speaking today as executive director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, CJFE, a non-profit, non-governmental organization

Public Safety committee  I believe so. I'll let Alice take this one.

Public Safety committee  To build off that very quickly, I can give you a concrete example of this. The winner of our Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award this year is a man by the name of Ali Mustafa. He was a Canadian citizen who was killed in Syria. He was one of the only photojournalists in Aleppo at the