Public Safety committee  I'll let Mr. Edelmann deal with it, because his area is the no-fly zone, but before going to him, there's an analogous situation that I see within the criminal law. You can end up with situations where someone's name is the same as someone else's, and when the police go through t

Public Safety committee  Yes, I can speak to that issue. We have recommendations on that issue both in our original submissions on Bill C-51 and in the green paper. You'll notice, if you read them, that there's a slight change in tone. We've appeared before on this issue at the Senate, for instance, and

Public Safety committee  I'll leave that one to Mr. Edelmann.

Public Safety committee  We as the CBA do not have a position with respect to that particular issue. I think the comments of my colleague are particularly apt, that when you're looking at these issues, rather than having a knee-jerk reaction, you need to have an evidence-based needs analysis. In our expe

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the invitation to come as witnesses today. I'll begin with a very quick blurb about the Canadian Bar Association. We're a national association of over 36,000 members, including lawyers, law students, notaries, and academics, with a mandate