Public Safety committee  With respect to the Criminal Code, I will pass that over to our legal director. We have a tremendous amount of respect for the Uyghur rights activists and the Canada Tibet Committee for the stances they took. I viewed the hearings where they discussed transnational repression, and I understand the conundrum you find yourselves in regarding the many different definitions being proposed for amendment in this legislation.

Public Safety committee  Yes, of course. I apologize.

Public Safety committee  I will pass that question to Nusaiba.

Public Safety committee  As I mentioned, we think, firstly, that this is an important bill and the study on this bill is crucial. We are in support of this bill passing. However, it would need, in our opinion, a much more robust and longer study to ensure that charter rights are not violated. To reiterate my points, a lack of definition for terms like “intimidation”, for example, could cause problems down the line and undue harms that we might not foresee right now because of the rush in investigating this bill.

Public Safety committee  Yes. We believe that part 4 of the bill would sufficiently support an election free of interference in 2025.

Public Safety committee  I appreciate that. Thank you.

Public Safety committee  We believe sharing information with communities that are targeted is crucial. It is important to make sure that those communities are able to protect themselves. I'm not too familiar with the tragic case of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, but I would imagine that had there been more communication from our security intelligence agencies, he might have been protected.

Public Safety committee  First of all, we want to acknowledge all the effort that has been made in the past week by this committee to ensure that Canada gets the robust and fair foreign interference legislation it needs and deserves. Regarding a definition for intimidation, again, our primary concern is not that it's ill defined but that it's simply not defined.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Chair. Good morning. My name is Ahmad Al Qadi. I'm joined by Nusaiba Al Azem, director of legal affairs for the National Council of Canadian Muslims. We're here to offer submissions on Bill C-70. Let us begin by noting that many of the goals in the act are laudable.