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Bill C-51 Backgrounder #5: Oversight and Review: Turning Accountability Gaps into Canyons? | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Bill C-51 Backgrounder #5: Oversight and Review: Turning Accountability Gaps into Canyons? Canada’s system of national security oversight is imperfect. Its system of national security review is frayed, perhaps to the breaking point. The government’s antiterrorism law, bill C-51, will accelerate this pattern. Without a serious course correction, we risk the prospect of avertible security service scandals. SIRC’s resource constraints and design mean that it is inc...

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Updated Assessment of the Information-Sharing Provisions in C-51 | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Updated Assessment of the Information-Sharing Provisions in C-51. Roach and I have published a brief article in the Canadian Privacy Law Review on C-51’s information-sharing law, updating our observations from prior backgrounders to incorporate amendments made to the provisions by the House of Commons during the legislative process. The paper can be downloaded here. The abstract is as follows:. Reproduced with permission of the publisher LexisNexis Canada Inc. fro...

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cforcese | Mentions | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Next Steps for Antiterrorlaw.ca. Over the summer and into the Fall, Kent Roach and I focused on writing our book False Security: The Radicalization of Anti-terrorism. And then speaking about the ideas in it at various fora. Like others, we await with interest the new government’s plans on next steps in Canadian anti-terror and national security law. I wrote up a short piece. On what we know now (comparatively little, but better than nothing). First up, as the teaching...

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March | 2015 | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Bill C-51: Hard Questions for the Government on the Security Implications of C-51. I have posted a list of “a Baker’s Dozen of Hard Questions on Security Raised by C-51” on my regular national security law blog. In case reader of this feed are interested. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). March 30, 2015. Part 2 (no fly). March 2...

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cforcese | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Law professor at uOttawa. Specialize in national security, international and public law. Also write on endurance sport and law. Righting Security: A Contextual and Critical Analysis and Response to Canada’s 2016 National Security Green Paper. Kent Roach and I have posted a review copy of our response to the government’s consultation paper. On national security and bill C-51. It can be downloaded here. Click to email (Opens in new window). October 10, 2016. SECU) For t...

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April | 2015 | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Novel theory of the constitution, detentions, renditions: Things we have learned about how the government sees C-51 powers. I have posted a digest. On some of the alarming positions about the reach of the proposed CSIS powers taken by the government during the final Commons committee hearing, in which all opposition amendments were defeated. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).

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Op-Eds and Commentary | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. An archive of op-eds and commentaries written by Craig Forcese and Kent Roach. January 30, 2015. Red, yellow lights for security measures. February 5, 2015. How Ottawa’s new terrorism act could chill free speech. February 10, 2015. The government’s new speech crime could undermine its anti-terror strategy. February 13, 2015. Bill C-51: the Good, the Bad . . . and the Truly Ugly. France shows West the smart way to fight IS at home. February 17, 2015. February 28, 2015.

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Bill C-51 Backgrounder # 4: The Terrorism Propaganda Provisions | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Bill C-51 Backgrounder # 4: The Terrorism Propaganda Provisions. Proposed s.83.222 of the Criminal Code creates a new concept of terrorist propaganda . It also allows judges to order deletion of terrorist propaganda from the internet. We think instead the terrorist propaganda concept should be anchored to existing terrorist crimes, which capture already the vast range of actually dangerous speech. Such an approach would ensure that deletion orders were appropriately f...

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February | 2015 | Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act

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Canada's Proposed Antiterrorism Act. Bill C-51 Backgrounder #5: Oversight and Review: Turning Accountability Gaps into Canyons? Canada’s system of national security oversight is imperfect. Its system of national security review is frayed, perhaps to the breaking point. The government’s antiterrorism law, bill C-51, will accelerate this pattern. Without a serious course correction, we risk the prospect of avertible security service scandals. SIRC’s resource constraints and design mean that it is inc...