Public Safety committee  Right. The point is, under the previous government, I think that he would have gone to trial and the charges wouldn't have been dropped. Under Bill C-51 I think we go in the direction of...as legal experts have pointed out, Bill C-51 actually prevents people from coming forward;

Public Safety committee  I have a friend here in Calgary, and her son—I believe he was 15 or 16 at the time—was sent to prison in Edmonton because he had been radicalized by ISIS. There was concern that he was going to leave the country. The mother is white and non-Muslim, and he had been radicalized. Sh

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  In fact, the last government was going to be brought.... There were reasonable grounds for people in that government to be tried for war crimes for bringing people—

Public Safety committee  No, hear me out here. For bringing people in Afghanistan and allowing them to be sent into incarceration where there was a credible risk of torture.... Even that is a war crime. Knowing that torture is possible and still sending people to be incarcerated there is a war crime. Rat

Public Safety committee  I am not completely aware of that. Who defines “protest”? Who defines “lawful protest”? Does the government define that? Because that is an inalienable right.

Public Safety committee  I'm aware that some amendments were made prior to its being passed, some minor amendments. I'm happy that it wasn't quite passed carte blanche. I feel that there was not nearly enough public debate, and there was not nearly a robust enough process to review this. Indeed, 150 ju

Public Safety committee  I'm glad you asked that. No, that's certainly expansion of this discussion. No, absolutely not. We should not just look internally, but when we go abroad, what are we sending abroad? Are we sending doctors, humanitarian aid? Does our humanitarian aid come with the golden straitja

Public Safety committee  Is that not true?

Public Safety committee  Which government decided that we were going to go? Well, anyway, we can save that for another day.

Public Safety committee  Yes, although the time to act isn't when things have gotten so far out of hand. The time for us to intervene in Syria and Iraq wasn't 15 years into a war on terrorism, which is an illegal war, but that's another issue. The time to act was before that. The time was—

Public Safety committee  There used to be a time when Canada was an honest middle power that punched above its weight and that sent peacekeepers, genuine peacekeepers, in blue helmets with UN mandates. In fact, we were the ones who came up with that concept. There was a time when we didn't tacitly condon

Public Safety committee  Chris Hedges said: There will, if this law is not blocked, be no checks left on state power. State Security will operate outside the law. Citizens will be convicted on secret evidence in secret courts. Citizens will be subject to arbitrary searches and arrests. Due process will

Public Safety committee  I, too, apologize. Thank you, first of all, for putting this on. You're outnumbering us [Inaudible—Editor]. Thank you for coming. I only heard about this yesterday, although I decided to meet the Prime Minister on this when he was coming to Calgary. I met him with the banner an