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Citizenship, immigration & refugee rights
Citoyenneté, immigration et droits des réfugié.es
Globe and Mail editorial: Chris Alexander's flawed overhaul of citizenship law
Globe and Mail - 06/02/2014 - Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has proposed a sweeping overhaul of Canada's immigration policy that captures both the best and worst tendencies of the Harper government. Many of the changes tabled on Thursday address the most stubborn problems plaguing Canada's immigration system. But the act is also sprinkled with small, illogical gestures that seem to serve no other function than  to play to the biases of a narrow part of the Conservative base. One particularly problematic proposal would revoke the citizenship of "terrorists," something that appears to have been salvaged from a private member's bill that failed to pass (for good reason) last year. That is effectively creating two-tier citizenship. Canadians who commit crimes should be punished, and they are. But even Canadians behind bars are still Canadians. Loss of citizenship, except in cases of citizenship fraudulently obtained, should not be on the menu of possible punishments, even for the gravest crimes. Read more - Lire plusWalkom: Canada's new citizenship bill a Trojan horseChris Selley: Actually, my citizenship is a rightNew quota aimed at stripping refugee status raises concerns among advocatesUS - Detainees sentenced in seconds in 'streamline' justice on border |
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Beyond the Border Plan
Périmètre de sécurité nord-américain
Little-known federal monitoring centre tracked bee protest
Embassy 12/02/2014 - Canada's little-known global monitoring nerve centre, which has moved to share more data with the United States government, turned its formidable surveillance powers on an Idle No More protest where people dressed up as bees, documents show. But the Canadian Government Operations Centre, a round-the-clock "monitoring and reporting" enterprise, felt it fit to monitor the event,  according to documents released to Embassy under Access to Information legislation. The disclosure comes as the GOC, which draws up "risk assessments" and co-ordinates federal emergency responses, has maneuvered to share more information with the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency and other US agencies, under the Beyond the Border Action Plan. A recent Public Safety report said that by 2011-12, "100 per cent" of these "US strategic-level operations centres" were connected with the GOC "to facilitate information flow and sharing." Read more
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Suppression de la dissidence
Suppression of dissent
Le fisc accusé de cibler les écologistes
Le Devoir 08/02/2014 - Une enquête de l'Agence du revenu du Canada sur les principaux groupes écologistes du pays provoque une levée de boucliers contre le gouvernement Harper, accusé de réduire au silence les voix dissidentes. Le fisc canadien a entrepris l'an dernier de vérifier les livres d'une série de groupes qui ont déjà critiqué Ottawa sur le front des changements climatiques, de l'exploitation des sables bitumineux ou de l'aménagement de pipelines. Au moins sept  groupes, dont Équiterre et la Fondation David Suzuki, actifs au Québec, font l'objet de cette vérification, a révélé cette semaine Radio-Canada. La vérification des groupes écologistes est la dernière d'une longue série d'attaques contre des organisations perçues comme des « ennemies du gouvernement », fait valoir Nathan Cullen, le leader parlementaire du Nouveau Parti démocratique. « Le gouvernement cible délibérément les groupes environnementaux. Vous ne verrez pas d'organisation charitable religieuse faire l'objet d'une enquête. Pourquoi ? Parce que les groupes écologistes ont critiqué de façon efficace les politiques du gouvernement », a-t-il dit à la sortie de la Chambre des communes vendredi. Lire plus7 environmental charities face Canada Revenue Agency audits
Rabble.ca 10/02/2014 - "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini. With the announcement by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) of formal complaints against the RCMP and CSIS for illegally spying on environmental groups opposed to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, should we ask the question: are we there yet? Well, no. But while media owners, editorialists, journalists and  academics periodically rise to the occasion and decry Stephen Harper's brazen attacks on our institutions it seems to me that they doth protest too little. The day after the BCCLA announced its formal complaint the media response was generally a big ho-hum. Harper business as usual. Old news. Harper's general list of assaults, as bad as they are, (and columnist Lawrence Martin has compiled a pretty thorough one here) is different from our prime minister's genuinely frightening decision to enlist the country's security apparatus in the direct and immediate service of the oil industry. Nothing like this has ever happened before in Canada. Read moreHow the American Petroleum Institute spies on environmentalists
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Canada, CSEC and mass surveillance
Canada, CSTC et surveillance globale
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US, NSA and mass surveillance
États-Unis, NSA et surveillance globale
The Intercept 10/02/2014 - The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes - an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. According to a former drone operator for the military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) who also worked with the NSA, the  agency often identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell-phone tracking technologies. Rather than confirming a target's identity with operatives or informants on the ground, the CIA or the U.S. military then orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone a person is believed to be using. The drone operator, who agreed to discuss the top-secret programs on the condition of anonymity, was a member of JSOC's High Value Targeting task force, which is charged with identifying, capturing or killing terrorist suspects in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and elsewhere. |
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Afghanistan
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Anti-terror legislation
Législation anti-terroriste
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Drones
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Guantanamo
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Liberté de la presse
Freedom of the press
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No-fly list
Liste d'interdiction de vol
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Omar Khadr
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Primauté du droit
Rule of law
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Rendition to torture
Renvoi vers la torture
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State secret
Secret d'État
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Surveillance
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The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG - Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC
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Action
Canadian campaign against mass surveillance: Call on your MP to stand against costly online spying
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Action
International campaign against mass surveillance: Sign the 13 Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
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What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualité?
The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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only as good as the underlying law. CSEC's mandate is broad. It includes acquiring information from the global information infrastructure for the purpose of providing foreign intelligence. CSEC's enabling legislation was rushed into law in the months after 9/11. It employs the somewhat old-fashioned concept of prohibiting surveillance that is directed at Canadians or persons in Canada. It fails to address metadata or the incidental interception of Canadian communications. It refers only to vague and undefined measures to protect Canadian privacy. Canada does not have adequate review mechanisms to ensure the public that its intelligence agencies are adequately doing their job both in protecting security and respecting rights including privacy
