Public Safety Committee hearings this Tuesday
I will be testifying before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security this Tuesday, March 24, along with other advocates who want the government to implement all of the Arar Inquiry’s recommendations, including Justice O’Connor’s model for effective civilian oversight of the RCMP, CSIS and the numerous other agencies that participate in national security investigations. We’ll also be urging the committee to press the government to do as it did for Maher Arar, and issue a formal apology to Ahmad El Maati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin for Canada’s role in their torture. I’ll be joined by Amnesty International’s secretary general Alex Neve; former solicitor general Warren Allmand representing the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group; Shirley Heafey, former chair and CEO of the RCMP’s Public Complaints Commission representing the BC Civil Liberties Association; and James Kafieh, counsel for the Canadian Arab Federation, the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations and the Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association. The hearings are open to the public, and will be taking place from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in room 269 of the West Block on Parliament Hill. The meeting can be watched on line — it will be webcast live here.
Tags: Arar Inquiry, Iacobucci Inquiry, Public Safety Committee
