The House public safety committee will hear from First Nations activists, local law enforcement officers and a retired Supreme Court judge as MPs continue their review of the proposed anti-terror bill on Tuesday.
On the witness list for today:
8:45 – 10:45 a.m. ET
- First Nations activist and Ryerson University chair Pam Palmater.
- Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs president Stewart Phillip.
- Toronto Police Service Insp.r Steve Irwin.
- Security expert Wesley Wark.
- Robert Morrison.
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ET
- Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies president Avi Benlolo.
- Former Supreme Court justice John Major.
- Centre for Immigration Policy Reform spokesperson Martin Collacott.
- Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police deputy commissioner Scott Tod.
- Canadian Thinkers' Forum Director General Tahir Gora, Sadia Haleema (director).
- Peter Neumann, War Studies professor at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, London (via video conference).
On Monday evening, the committee heard from Louise Vincent, the sister of slain soldier Patrice VIncent, who delivered an impassioned plea in support of the legislation, which she said could have prevented her brother's death by making it easier to get a peace bond against potentially dangerous individuals.
Pam Palmater, a Mi'kmaw lawyer, author, professor and political pundit, is among the witnesses slated to testify at the House public safety committee this morning. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
During the same session, retired former Conservative senator Hugh Segal, who currently serves as master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, urged the government to consider expanding the current oversight regime, but reserved his most dire warning for the proposal to give CSIS the ability to request judicial authorization to breach Charter rights.
"My most serious excess [concern] is the provision that would allow a judge with respect to lawful interruption to set aside the Charter of Rights and Freedoms," Segal told the committee.
"That is a principle which is … overdone, excessive, unconstructive and violates a core Canadian value."
If left unamended, the courts "would strike it down very soon under any circumstance," he predicted.
"The notion that we would give any judge the ability to, in a less than public context, set aside the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to facilitate a security agency being involved in lawful disruption strikes me as a core contradiction and deeply problematic," he added.
Meanwhile, Conservative MP Michael Chong has issued a statement on the bill that, while supportive overall, does raise the notion of giving parliamentarians a role in the oversight process.
"While I fully support Bill C-51, I also believe we need greater oversight of Canadian security and intelligence agencies by a parliamentary committee of elected MPs, who are directly and democratically accountable to Canadians," Chong wrote in the statement, which was posted to his website last week.
"That greater oversight is even more important as we give these agencies new powers to combat terrorism."
So far, there's been no indication from the Harper government that it will address concerns expressed by other critics previously about adequate oversight for CSIS.
The bill is expected to be sent back to the House by the end of the month, although it is currently unclear whether it might be amended when the committee moves to clause by clause next week.
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