Justice committee  I do think there's a data problem; I think we don't have full information about what exists. At the very root, to go back to something Mr. Cameron said at the outset in his comments, we need to understand what we mean when we talk about a hate crime or a hate incident. Typicall

Justice committee  Unfortunately, I didn't hear the panel before, so I'm not sure of the differences that were discussed. At a very practical level, we have to recognize that the online space is not at all like the real world, where there are geographic boundaries that Canada can police and patrol

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you to the committee for inviting the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to participate in its study on online hate. As you all know, the CCLA is a national, non-profit and non-partisan public interest organization with over 50 years of experience in promoting respect f

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I'm going to try to talk a little about the model that the federal government could have considered as part of a truly meaningful effort to transform corrections and address some of the constitutional violations that were identified by the courts in Ontario and B.C. t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have an example. We discussed this yesterday in the office. It struck me that it's comparable in some ways to the fact that we do this with electoral boundaries because there's a vested interest, obviously.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There were three.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was a six-to-three decision.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I'm not sure. I don't have the decision with me, unfortunately, but I think they do use that term in reference to the ability of parties and candidates to monopolize the discourse during an election because of the way the spending limits are set.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, that's the idea, that third parties are just citizens who are trying to get out there and tell their fellow citizens what they think about during the election, and while recognizing that there may well be a need to make sure we don't...I don't think anyone wants to turn us i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't want to suggest that it's an easy thing to solve. Our concern is that we've tipped the balance in the wrong direction and that's not to say that we should open the doors and say there are no limits, but we have to look carefully at what those limits are and what they mean

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's true that some groups don't get close to those limits.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We've been living with these limits for over a decade now, so it's hard to know what would happen if there was more space. Look at the Harper case and some of the facts that the dissent put forward. I mentioned one, that you couldn't run a single-day ad in national newspapers. Wi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I haven't said that I think third parties necessarily need higher limits. What I said was that I don't see the evidence for the existing limits.