Résumé
"Individuals, academics and communities within Canadian society have raised concerns that national security organizations target and profile people based on race, ethnicity, religion and national origin. Canadian authorities insist that these concerns are unfounded. As part of its efforts to understand these developments and their implications, as well as social trends and shifts in Canadian society, the Commission has undertaken a research initiative on national security. To date, the research has included an overview of the Canadian national security environment and human rights, an analysis of the effectiveness of profiling and the extent to which Canadian security agencies report systematically on the human rights impacts of their work"--Page 2.