En guise de préambule, j'aimerais rappeler aux Canadiens que notre Charte des droits et libertés, dont l'application est différente de celle de toute autre charte dans le monde, à ce que je sache, offre une certaine protection même aux non-citoyens qui se trouvent dans les eaux canadiennes.
As a preamble, I would like to remind Canadians, and I think the minister and the House would agree, that our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is applied differently from any other charter in the world, as far as I am aware, offers some protection even to non-citizens within Canadian waters.