Public Safety committee  I didn't have the opportunity to see all of the minister's testimony, but I do know, and we do agree, that this is an improvement in terms of narrowing the offence considerably. In our view, it's still arguably unnecessary, since counselling any offence that's already an offence

Public Safety committee  May I have an opportunity to answer that question?

Public Safety committee  We feel that the scheme laid out in Bill C-59, as we said, is an improvement in terms of clarifying what the contours of threat disruption look like and making clearer to both the public and to the service itself what the acceptable and prohibited bounds are. In particular, the a

Public Safety committee  I don't think we have a comment.

Public Safety committee  Yes, my apologies to the committee for coming in late. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association appreciates the opportunity to make submissions with respect to Bill C-59. CCLA was a vocal critic of the Anti-terrorism Act pass

Justice committee  Would you like that through the clerk?

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  I will take you up on the opportunity to take a look and clarify that after. I will say that, even if that 60-day requirement is not what we're talking about here, with the records in the accused's own possession, in the ebb and flow of a criminal trial, there may actually be, e

Justice committee  If the goal is to ensure that an accused does not have to engage in this process until the crown has completed its case, I certainly think that a clarifying amendment could and should be made.

Justice committee  I'm just looking at my version of the bill to see if I can pinpoint that. Can you repeat the subsection that you referred to?

Justice committee  I believe that subsection is talking about the holding of the hearing, not when the application has to be made. I'm not sure if it's just in relation to section 276. There was one provision that expanded the period of time before which...and that might be section 276.

Justice committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Cara Zwibel, and I'm the acting general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. My colleague Victoria Cichalewska is with me. She's our articling fellow. On behalf of the CCLA, I would like to thank