Andrea Wright is presently counsel to the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, specializing in national security and human rights, and the comparative study of accountability mechanisms for security intelligence in democratic countries. A graduate of the Faculty of Law, McGill University, she has practised with McCarthy Tetrault in Toronto, and has been involved in a number of public law projects and conferences. At the time of the presentation of her paper in this volume, she was counsel to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, litigating statutory human rights, Charter, and administrative law cases in both official languages before numerous courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court of Canada.