Public Safety committee  Monsieur Ménard, I'll just take a second to answer that. I've provided my submission to many of the members of the committee. I met with some yesterday and delivered some copies. Mr. Chair, I was remiss in forgetting you, but I'll give you one outside so we won't break any rules

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking the time to hear our testimony. I think I'm going up against Karlheinz Schreiber, so I'm probably not going to get much attention today. That's like going against Mike Tyson, I guess, with my hands cuffed. So I'

Public Safety committee  We have prepared a written submission on this legislation, but I just wanted to reiterate that many of these groups have called me personally. I want to put on the record that many people in this country believe that this is a rushed process when it doesn't need to be a rushed pr

Public Safety committee  I've seen Lorne and Craig's piece, and I would concur with all of what they have said, but I have a number of additional.... I would add the Suresh exception and a number of other things. I don't want to go through the whole list here. As has been cautioned in our submission, b

Public Safety committee  The bill as it currently stands—and if I knew what the Supreme Court were going to do, I'd also know the lottery numbers for next week and I wouldn't be doing this.... As I mentioned, she said the substitute has to be meaningful, substantial, allow informed participation, and m

Public Safety committee  I appreciate the question, Monsieur Ménard. I think what you're referring to would in the evidence world be derivative evidence: if I torture the heck out of you and you tell me something, and I can't use that evidence but it leads me to something else—the secondary, derivative e

Public Safety committee  I am opposed to that for a number of reasons. First of all, the analog in the criminal law and in the charter jurisprudence, and even in the United States under the Bill of Rights, is that derivative evidence is not allowed, because then effectively you let police or security age

Public Safety committee  I'll keep it short. Mr. Ménard, I see your point that you would have some information that you wouldn't use in the legal proceeding, that you would use for public safety. I see your point, and it gets into that moral dilemma. I would have to err on the side of the legal princi

Public Safety committee  I can speak to that a bit. On principle, it just doesn't stand when you look at it logically and legally. I know we are in the realm of politics and the law doesn't fully apply in that way, so that's why I'm offering you recommendations. So, in principle, we would prefer this ei

Public Safety committee  Mr. MacKenzie, to be clear and on the record, the Muslim community in this country are Canadians. We're proud to be Canadians. We share many of the values of this country. Our values are not any different from Canadian values. I wanted that on the record so there's no misunders

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the committee, fellow witnesses, and guests. My name is Ziyaad Mia, and I am representing the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association today. Thank you for inviting me to participate in this session on this very important mat

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question.

Public Safety committee  I talked about the balance. Just to address your first question, due process and the adversarial process set that balance to find the truth to avoid mistakes while catching criminals. And to Mr. Vernon's point, this isn't an issue about parliamentary oversight, sir. The Arar inq

Public Safety committee  Madame Mourani, thank you for your question. That is a real concern in the Muslim and Arab communities since September 11, 2001, since the Anti-terrorism Act came into play. We're not discounting the fact that, yes, people are suspicious. There are issues in the world today that

Public Safety committee  Exactly.