Public Safety committee  You can't assume people are guilty before they've committed a crime. Otherwise, that's too easy to bend; you can lock me up because you don't like what I'm thinking. You can't have thought police. That's the problem with the politically correct.... We have a political correctness

Public Safety committee  I'm afraid it does. I'm afraid it does. I could say things now that would get me in trouble just because I'm thinking a certain way. With the FLQ crisis, I believe that was a special state of emergency, wasn't it, where they had extra powers, and regular, right, so that was a.

Public Safety committee  The War Measures Act was in effect, but I don't want to have to live under the war measures effect, where they just have.... You know, I can be monitored, right? I can be surveilled just because somebody feels like it. That's just way too broad.

Public Safety committee  I think that's a false economy. You cannot think somebody's possibly going to do something and lock them up or take action against them. You have to have a free society. I have to be free to move without the government taking action against me because it doesn't like the colour o

Public Safety committee  That's right, but you're saying if they had a chance to lock these people up before they could have committed those crimes...is that what you want to do? You're saying they knew that these folks were suspicious and that they might do something and now you want the power to lock t

Public Safety committee  That's not right. You can't lock these guys up because—

Public Safety committee  You're not going to prevent every terrorism act by locking up people you are suspicious of. You'll lock up the whole country.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, I appreciate that.

Public Safety committee  I'm talking in general. I mean, there's somebody here from security. This could open things up, things like no-fly lists. When I look at the government, the Canadian government, it looks to me like we're taking more and more rights and freedoms away from people. I see the freedom

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your time. How are you doing? I'm just an ordinary guy. I didn't even plan to be here tonight, but my son is very passionate about this whole thing about the rights of Canadians and things like that, so he said, “Dad, you have to go and speak.” I'm an amateur, bu