#bill c51

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Canada Day 2018

[chrisnolan-ca]

I'm #CrowdsourcingC51 - join me!

Our government is about to reform Bill C-51. Make sure they're listening to our feedback.

[studentprotests]

'Rule of law' racism, C-51 and the coming resistance wave

It's a sign of how utterly frightened they are of democracy when politicians and pundits start lecturing us about the "real" definition of civil disobedience. This usually happens during the sanitizing rituals of the January Martin Luther King Day holiday, when King's revolutionary calls to justice are erased in favour of saccharine, self-congratulatory events wholly unconnected to the civil rights movement's multiple, powerful legacies.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2017/01/rule-law-racism-c-51-and-coming-resistance-wave

[studentprotests]

Justin Trudeau promised changes to draconian Bill C-51. We're still waiting

Bill C-51 was opposed by the Green Party, the Bloc Québecois and the NDP, which mounted a filibuster in Parliament. The Liberals under Justin Trudeau chose to support the legislation. But in the 2015 federal election, they promised to repeal the bill's "problematic elements" and introduce new legislation that would strengthen parliament's oversight.

Fifteen months after the election, Bill C-51 remains in place, and one assumes that spy and law enforcement agencies are making use of their enhanced powers.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/dennis-gruending/2017/01/justin-trudeau-promised-changes-to-draconian-bill-c-51-were-

[studentprotests]

Bill C-51 is violating our Charter rights and Canada doesn't care

Canada is currently undergoing a human rights crisis. The Liberal government is currently conducting public consultations over the "problematic elements" of the so-called anti-terror Bill C-51. However, this process is already set up to be rigged.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kyle-curlew/2016/11/bill-c-51-violating-our-charter-rights-and-canada-doesnt-care

[studentprotests]

Canada's legacy of anti-terror panic has come home to roost with Bill C-51

Bill C-51, or the Anti-Terrorism Act (2015), is not the beginning of the atmosphere of fear and anxiety around national security in Canada. This act is connected to a larger history of domestic espionage that came to explicitly target activists as national security threats.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kyle-curlew/2016/11/canadas-legacy-anti-terror-panic-has-come-home-to-roost-bill-c-51

[studentprotests]

The Liberals' new discussion paper on Bill C-51 reads like a defence of the bill it's supposed to fix

The Liberal Government has recently released a document called Our Security, Our Rights: National Security Green Paper. The Green Paper was meant to kick off a series of public consultations by providing a list of helpful speaking points. The document opens with a stated goal to meet the Liberal Party election promises to amend the "problematic elements" of the Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-51).

Though after reading through its many sections, it seems apparent to me that the Green Paper was written to defend the act from its many criticisms. A ridiculous reversal in the light of Trudeau's promises.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kyle-curlew/2016/10/liberals-new-discussion-paper-on-bill-c-51-reads-defence-bill-its

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Feds failed to assess privacy implications of C-51 info-sharing: watchdog

In the first six months the law was in force -- August 1, 2015, to Jan. 31 of this year -- five agencies reported to Therrien's office that collectively they received information through the law on 52 occasions.

The government hasn't done enough to protect the privacy of "law-abiding Canadians" from new information-sharing powers in the omnibus security legislation known as C-51, says a federal watchdog.

Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he was surprised that many federal agencies did not examine the effect the powers in the controversial Conservative bill would have on people's personal information.

In his annual report Tuesday, Therrien recommends agencies carry out formal privacy impact assessments -- a key tool required under government policy when departments set up any new program or activity involving personal information.

The Security of Canada Sharing Information Act, part of C-51, expanded the exchange of federally held information about activity that "undermines the security of Canada."

The former Conservative government, which brought in the legislation, argued the measures were needed because some federal agencies lacked or had unclear legal authority to share information related to national security.

In his report, Therrien says the law is broadly worded and leaves much discretion to agencies to define what sort of activities fall undermine security. The scale of information-sharing that could occur "is unprecedented," he adds.

Legal standards for information sharing should ensure that "law-abiding Canadians, ordinary Canadians who should have nothing to fear from surveillance activities of the state, are not caught by the information-sharing regime," Therrien told a news conference.

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