Public Safety committee  I'll address that in possibly less than 20 seconds. No one's against pre-clearance and its expansion. It's great on all fronts. It's going to help with business travel and tourism. The only requirement is to do it within the confines of the law and the charter and the protections

Public Safety committee  We will. Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  What would need to happen is for some of those immunities to be stripped. The bill includes an explicit provision that civil immunity is granted to border officers. There's no civil remedy. You can't go to the courts for the border officers. It also explicitly states that the Sta

Public Safety committee  I'll take that. Absolutely, it's a major concern of our organization, especially when you see that the explicit protection.... The act of withdrawal is not going to be exempted from, in and of itself, being deemed a reasonable ground to suspect the commission of an offence. Wit

Public Safety committee  Sure. Thank you. The Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association has drafted written submissions that outline in detail the many parameters of this bill that are concerning to us. I've highlighted some of the salient ones in our testimony today. It will be provided for translation and w

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. My name is Pantea Jafari. I'm a board member of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association. I'm very pleased to be here today. Thank you for having us. As my colleague suggested, we represent not only Canadian Muslims, of course, but also a wide umbrella of pe