From its inception, the No Fly List (“Passenger Protection Program”) has disproportionately affected Muslims and people with Muslim-sounding names.

The whole situation is ironic because Sky seems to have once been a proponent of profiling tactics in law enforcement.

The Passenger Protect Program is a highly secretive passenger-screening program. It’s stated objective is to prevent 1) terrorism on flights, 2) individuals from travelling to participate in a terrorist activity.

But there are some significant flaws... https://iclmg.ca/issues/canadas-no-fly-list/

Perhaps most troubling is the discriminatory application.

@BhabhaFaisal has described it as “One of the most damaging instruments of racial and religious profiling currently in place in this country. It is the national security analogue to carding in the urban policing context.”

There is no redress process for false positives of the Passenger Protect Program. This means there are children and adults who get falsely flagged every time they travel, and there’s nothing they can do about it.

https://noflylistkids.ca/en/faq-2 

Our Charter freedoms and civil liberties have BEEN under attack for decades. People like Chris Sky coming out of the woodwork as civil liberties heroes need to do their homework.