The Anti-terrorism Act
The Special Senate Committee on the Anti-terrorism Act was created in December 2004 to undertake a comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Anti-terrorism Act, (S.C. 2001, c.41). Please refer to the committee website for official transcripts and more information. To date, the Committee has heard from the following witnesses (in order of appearance):
14 February, 2005
Hon. Anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; Paul Kennedy, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Caanda; Bill Pentney, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Justice
21 February, 2005
Hon. Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; George Dolhai, Director/Senior Counsel, Strategic Prosecution Policy Section; Stan Cohen, Senior General Counsel, Human Rights Law Section; Doug Breithaupt, Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section; Daniel Therrien, Senior General Counsel, Citizen, Immigration and Public Safety Portfolio
7 March, 2005
Jim Judd, Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service; Dale Neufeld, Deputy Director of Operations
14 March, 2005
Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Analyst, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment; Michael Clarke, Director, International Policy Institute, King's College London; Martin Rudner, Director, Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University; John Thompson, President, Mackenzie Institute; Rohan Gunaratna, Head, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
15 March, 2005
Professor Wesley K. Wark, International Relations Programme, University of Toronto; Patrick J. Monahan, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Kent Roach, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Professor Wayne MacKay, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University; Professor Jamie Cameron, Osgoode Hall Law School
21 March, 2005
Paul Kennedy, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada; Daniel Therrien, Senior General Counsel, Department of Justice Canada; Robert Batt, Senior Counsel, Legal Services, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS); Claudette Deschênes, VicePresident, Enforcement Branch, Canada Border Services Agency; Craig Goodes, Acting Director General, Case Management Branch, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Ruth Archibald, Senior Coordinator, International Crime and Terrorism Division, Foreign Affairs Canada; Keith Morrill, Director, Criminal, Security and Treaty Law Division, Foreign Affairs Canada
11 April, 2005
Giuliano Zaccardelli RCMP Commissioner; Gwen Boniface OPP Commissioner; Vince Bevin, Chief, Ottawa Police Service
Edgar MacLeod, Chief, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police; Vince Westwick and Frank Ryder, cochairs of the Law Amendments Committee
Keith Coulter, Chief of the Communications Security Establishment; Barb Gibbons, Deputy Chief of Corporate Services; John Ossowski, Director General, Policy and Communications; David Akman, Director of Legal Services and General Counsel
18 April, 2005
Horst Intscher, Director, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC); Sandra Wing, Deputy Director for External Relationships, FINTRAC; Josée Desjardins, Senior Counsel, FINTRAC
Shirley Heafey, Chair, Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP; Steve McDonell, Senior General Counsel; Susan Pollak, Executive Director, Security and Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC); Sharon Hamilton, Senior Research Advisor, SIRC
David WrightNeville, Professor, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
2 May, 2005
Susan T. McGrath, President, Canadian Bar Association (CBA); Greg P. DelBigio, Chair, Legislation and Law Reform Committee and Vice Chair, National Criminal Justice Section, CBA; Tamra Thompson, Director of Legislation and Law Reform, CBA
William M. Trudell, Chair, Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers; Ziyaad Mia, Member, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association; David Morris, Former Member of Board of Directors, Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights
9 May, 2005
Giuliano Zaccardelli, RCMP Commissioner
Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Alain Jolicoeur, President, Canadian Border Services Agency; David Dunbar, A/Head of Legal Services (CBSA)
16 May, 2005
Alan Borovoy, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International
JeanLouis Roy, President, Rights and Democracy
Philippe Robert de Massy, Lawyer, Ligues des droits et libertés
30 May, 2005
John Reid, Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada; Alan Leadbeater, Deputy Information Commissioner of Canada; Dan Dupuis, Director General, Investigation and Reviews, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada; Daniel Brunet, General Counsel, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Andrew Brouwer, Member of the Executive Committee, Canadian Council for Refugees
Lorne A. Waldman, Member, National Citizenship and Immigration Law Section, Canadian Bar Association
Barbara Jackman, As an Individual
The Honourable Reg Alcock, P.C., M.P., President of the Treasury Board
Helen McDonald, Chief Information Officer, Treasury Board of Canada; Donald Lemieux, Senior Director, Treasury Board of Canada
13 June, 2005
The Right Honourable Antonio Lamer, P.C., Commissioner, Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner; Joanne Weeks, Executive Director, Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner
Riad Saloojee, Executive Director, Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN), Adam Esse, President, Coalition for Muslim Organizations (COMO);
Omar Alghabra, National President, Canadian Arab Federation (CAF); Khurrum Awan
Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC)
20 June, 2005
Mr. Jean-Paul Laborde, Chief, Terrorist Prevention Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Robbin Tourangeau, Vice-President, Public Policy and Government Relations, Imagine Canada; Peter Broder, Corporate Counsel and Director, Regulatory Affairs, Imagine Canada; Blake Bromley, Benefic Lawyers
26 September, 2005
Mr. David Matas, Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada; Ed Morgan, National President, Canadian Jewish Congress
17 October, 2005
Joan Russow; David Pratt, Advisor and Special Ambassador, Canadian Red Cross; George D. Hunter, Vice-President, Federation of Law Societies of Canada; Katherine Corrick, Director of Policy, Law Society of Upper Canada, Federation of Law Societies of Canada
The Honourable Warren Allmand, P.C., Steering Committee Member, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group; Roch Tassé, National Coordinator, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group; François Crépeau, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal
Murray Mollard, Executive Director, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association; Jason Gratl, President, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
Marie Chen, African Canadian Legal Clinic; Royland Moriah, African Canadian Legal Clinic; Anu Bose, Executive Director, National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada
24 October, 2005
Hassan Yussuff, Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Labour Congress; David Onyalo, Executive Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Labour Congress
Dr. Zaheer Lakhani, Chair, Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security; Marc Whittingham, Assistant Deputy Minister, Portfolio Relations and Public Affairs, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
31 October, 2005
Jim Judd, Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
Faisal Joseph, National Legal Counsel, Canadian Islamic Congress; Imam Salam Elmenyawi, Chairman, Muslim Council of Montreal.
14 November, 2005
The Honourable Joe Volpe, P.C., M.P., Minister of Citizenship and Immigration; Anne Arnott, Director General, Case Management; Claudette Deschênes, Vice-President, Enforcement Branch, Canada Border Services Agency; Daniel Therrien, Acting Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Legal Services
The Honourable Jean Lapierre, P.C., M.P., Minister of Transport; Jacques Pigeon, Departmental General Counsel, Legal Services; John Forster, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Safety and Security
Jacques Duchesneau, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority; Marc Duncan, Vice-President, Chief Operating Officer, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority; Michael McLaughlin, Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
The Honourable Anne McLellan, P.C., M.P., Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; Margaret Bloodworth, Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
The Honourable Irwin Cotler, P.C., M.P., Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; Bill Pentney, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy Sector
21 November, 2005
Maureen Basnicki; Bal Gupta, Chair, Air India 182 Victims Families Association; Nicola Kelly, Executive Committee Member, Air India 182 Victims Families Association
