Information & Ethics committee  Quite simply, it's very hard to engage in a conversation when basic facts aren't being acknowledged. When CSIS tells us that they're not going to answer a basic question—which is the same question they haven't answered for you right now—about whether facial recognition technolo

Information & Ethics committee  I think we may want to look at the CSIS Act as well.

Information & Ethics committee  I think the reality is that we still don't know—and to the best of my knowledge, this committee has not been told—whether CSIS uses facial recognition technology. That's a knowledge deficiency Canadians deserve to have the answers to. Depending on those sets of answers, we may al

Information & Ethics committee  Unfortunately, we're not experts in the area of how this could be looked at from a consumer or a corporate perspective, but I will say that there are significant concerns within our communities generally about how large tech companies are taking in this data, how it's being used,

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I think the reality is that the answer is yes, we think there is a high possibility of this happening. The reality is that we get calls all the time, which people don't hear about, from folks who are undergoing surveillance from CSIS, from the RCMP, and th

Information & Ethics committee  Not at this point, but I think in large part that may have to do with the fact that many folks don't necessarily know that they've been caught in these kinds of things. We sometimes hear concerns around people attending peaceful rallies, whether that's in Vancouver or Hamilton or

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll actually pass it over to my colleague, if that's okay, Chair.

Public Safety committee  My short answer is yes; they should be able to have the resource to do that, but it also breaks my heart that we have to have this conversation. Good fences don't make good neighbours.

Public Safety committee  Sure, I'll speak to it quickly. I think that, as I saw yesterday, there was a swastika painted on a mosque in Edmonton. There is a confluence in the way that white supremacists target Canadian Muslim and Canadian Jewish communities. The O9A, the white supremacist organization lin

Public Safety committee  Just to make sure that the record is clear, the decision has been appealed and was granted leave at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Public Safety committee  I think we need a new approach in listing white supremacist groups as white supremacist groups and provide new mechanisms to dismantle them that are separate and distinct from the regime of terrorism legislation under the Criminal Code and under the ATA. Obviously, I can't full

Public Safety committee  The one recommendation I would have is to bring forward new legislation that deals with the new challenges of white supremacist groups, by recommending the introduction of new sections to the Criminal Code that list white supremacist groups as white supremacist groups.

Public Safety committee  Statistics Canada itself identifies that one of the major gaps in the numbers is from a lack of reporting. I can tell you that one of the major gaps in our community doesn't come from a lack of literacy. She alluded to this. Oftentimes it comes from the fact that our communities

Public Safety committee  Thank you. This is an important question. I think there are a number of best practices that do need to be undertaken. Part of those best practices involve a lot of community listening and working with local communities in an authentic way. I mean if we look at the Quebec City po