Public Safety committee  Béatrice, do you want to answer?

Public Safety committee  I would agree that those are all areas of concern that we're watching very closely. I wouldn't say that Amnesty necessarily has clear positions of opposition with respect to the issues that you're highlighting, but we certainly have signalled the very real potential that there

Public Safety committee  Would you like to answer the question, Ms. Vaugrante?

Public Safety committee  If I could add one point, I think it's worth highlighting that in 2012, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, which was reviewing Canada's record of compliance with the UN convention against torture at the time, pointed to concerns about the ministerial directions and hig

Public Safety committee  I think it's very timely to be pointing to concerns about what the rapidly changing, and we would say deteriorating, human rights situation in the United States means potentially for our intelligence relationships. One is the concerns around torture, obviously. I think it's goi

Public Safety committee  It's much more recent than 1938.

Public Safety committee  It begins in 1948, which is when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was crafted. There have been numerous treaties in the decades since then. Even now, United Nations human rights gatherings of governments continue to re-examine—but in doing so, reaffirm—the fundamental hu

Public Safety committee  Can I use that slogan for our next campaign?

Public Safety committee  As my colleague Madame Vaugrante laid out, what we come back to is that the international human rights system itself already strikes the balance we're talking about, so you do not need to look outside of or beyond human rights in order to anticipate or decide what the balance is.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. Our concerns are about the fairness, openness, and transparency of the appeal process. We welcome the fact that in Bill C-51 the whole system has finally been legislated and that there are now clearer standards and there is an established appeal process and people k

Public Safety committee  Recommendation one is the recognition of human rights as a foundational pillar. Recommendation two is the adoption of a number of effective safeguards to deliver human rights in our national security framework. The third recommendation is, of course, for a number of specific refo

Public Safety committee  We will go back and forth, but seamlessly, and thank you for letting us go first. I assure you, Mr. Chair, you would not want to lose Béatrice Vaugrante. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, a misleading debate has taken hold about the relationship bet