Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Yes, there may definitely be circumstances in which, according to the facts of the case or the profile of the case, you're going to need to do extensive research on various topics.

Public Safety committee  I don't think there is a magic number of years to take as a specific reference. Our recommendation would be that once it is determined that this person cannot be removed—cannot be sent back home—for various reasons, then we cannot just say that we have another couple of years t

Public Safety committee  I think when we use the word “evidence” in our submission, we are not referring at all to the summary itself. We are talking about.... It can be documents, it can be testimony, it can be other kinds of information CSIS would have obtained in the course of its inquiries to reach t

Public Safety committee  It can be all kinds of things, you know. You're going to have reports from officials abroad who've done inquiries or who have met with witnesses. It's going to be a wide range of different type of evidence. Now, there are also situations in which a very remote source of inform

Public Safety committee  I would like to say briefly that I guess one way you can reassure your constituents is by realizing that our immigration act contains a number of provisions that allow us to get rid of those people we don't want to keep in the territory. You can be declared inadmissible for vari

Public Safety committee  No, we haven't.

Public Safety committee  I think it's really a case-by-case situation.

Public Safety committee  No. We cannot either quote statistics of how many of those who were deported or sent back home or went back home have been in fact detained or tortured or killed. I don't think anyone has access to or has compiled that type of information. Perhaps you could ask Amnesty Internati

Public Safety committee  There are a number of charges under various categories of offences. Then, if some evidence is to be protected or kept secret, the judge would have to review the evidence, balance the need for protection versus the inconveniences for the individual to access or not access the ev

Public Safety committee  The CBA opposes it and recommends major changes.

Public Safety committee  This individual would be charged under the Criminal Code—

Public Safety committee  No, that term is completely inappropriate. Of course, the term “défenseur” suggests the act of defending someone. The Bill talks about protecting interests. “Special advocate” is a sui generis expression and it is impossible to know what it means until you read the legislation to

Public Safety committee  Yes, exactly.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.