AIR INDIA INQUIRY URGED TO RECOMMEND REFORM OF “NO FLY” PROGRAM

The Air India inquiry has received 19 recommendations from CCLA relating to airline security and police governance. Currently, individuals whose names appear on Canada’s no-fly list do not generally find out until they arrive at the airport and attempt to board a flight. Moreover, such individuals are not entitled to an independent review of the listing decision if they believe they have been wrongly included. Nor do they have a right to compensation in the event that a mistake is found or acknowledged.

Graeme Norton, CCLA’s Public Safety Project Director, called for independent review with compensatory rights. He repeated these proposals in media interviews and at a privacy roundtable at the U of T law school.

The CCLA brief also dealt with “behavioural profiling” and the relations between CSIS and the RCMP.