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Législation anti-terrorisme
Anti-terror legislation
Steven Blaney unveils new measures to boost CSIS powers
CBC News 16/10/2014 - Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has unveiled new federal plans to boost protection for intelligence sources, by giving them the same protections bestowed upon police informants in criminal cases. Blaney provided details of the new legislation at a news conference Thursday in Banff, Alta., where provincial and territorial justice ministers have been meeting. The bill, which is expected to be tabled next week, would also give Canadian security agencies greater powers to track terrorists abroad through expanded information sharing with partners,  Blaney said during a weekend interview. [...] The Supreme Court agreed in a May ruling on the national security certificate regime that there should be no overarching privilege for CSIS sources. [...] Two lawyers with deep experience defending clients in national security cases have warned that extending blanket protection to spy sources could seriously endanger the fairness of court proceedings. It could mean defence counsel and even judges would never have the right to question human sources who provide information on behalf of CSIS - such as when the government attempts to deport a terror suspect using a national security certificate. [...] Toronto lawyer Paul Copeland, who previously represented Harkat, said giving the class privilege to intelligence informants would be "highly dangerous." Read more - Lire plusDe nouvelles mesures annoncées par Ottawa pour lutter contre le terrorismeTories cite dismissed terror report to bolster case for more powersRevisiting our anti-terrorism lawsSteven Blaney downplays missed deadline in Canada-U.S. pact |
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Surveillance globale
Mass surveillance
Mass surveillance killing Internet privacy, UN report says
The Toronto Star 15/10/2014 - In the UN's most sweeping report targeting mass electronic surveillance, counter terrorism envoy Ben Emmerson says widespread use of the technology by intelligence agencies signals the death knell of privacy on the Internet. "The hard truth is that the use of mass surveillance technology effectively does away with the right to privacy of communications on the Internet altogether," says the 22-page document, which was tabled this week. It warned of "purpose creep" that allows authorities to justify scooping of data on grounds of  counter-terrorism, when the information is actually used for "much less weighty" purposes. However strong the report's conclusions, little is likely to change, says David Murakami Wood, Canada chair in Surveillance Studies at Queen's University. "The government will do its best to ignore it," he said in a phone interview. "Canada has managed to get away with a lot and CSEC (the equivalent of the American NSA) has managed to go unmentioned most of the time. "They've made the fewest concessions and given few responses to criticism" or calls for oversight and restraint, he added. Nor is there any proof that siphoning massive amounts of material from cellphones and the Internet is useful in halting terrorist plots.
UN Special Rapporteur's report on human rights and counter terrorismGlenn Greenwald's analysis: UN report finds mass surveillance violates international treaties and privacy rightsEU-funded study: Electronic mass surveillance fails - drastically
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Anti-terrorist legislation
Législation antiterroriste
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Citizenship, immigration & refugee rights
Citoyenneté, immigration et droits des réfugié.es
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Drones
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Islamophobie
Islamophobia
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Mass surveillance
Surveillance globale
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No fly lists
Listes d'interdiction de vol
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Politics and terrorism
Politique et terrorisme
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Racial profiling
Profilage racial
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Reflections on the war on terror
Réflexions sur la guerre au terrorisme
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Scientific freedom
Liberté scientifique
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State secrecy
Secret d'État
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Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
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Terrorist listings
Listes d'entités terroristes
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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Special event
Register now!
Arar +10: National Security and Human Rights a Decade Later
When: October 29th, 2014 Conference: 8:00-17:30 Wine and cheese: 17:30-19 Where: Huguette Labelle Hall, room 112, Tabaret building, 75 Laurier avenue East, University of Ottawa  Join ICLMG, Amnesty and HRREC and CIPS at OttawaU for a daylong conference including an unprecedented keynote lunchtime panel made up of the three judges to preside over judicial inquiries dealing with national security in Canada over the past ten years: The Honourable Frank Iacobucci; the Honourable John Major; and the Honourable Dennis O'Connor. Other panels will discuss the personal dimension of national security-related human rights violations, challenges for the legal profession and ongoing concerns related to oversight of national security activities. The conference will also feature a morning panel with four leading journalists working at the forefront of national security and human rights in Canada over the past decade. Programme
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Action
Stop Ontario Provincial Police from doing immigration enforcement's dirty work
 On Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, at least 21 of our family members and friends were on their way to work when they were racially profiled, forcefully IDd, and arrested. They now face possibly endless detention and separation from their families simply for trying to put food on the table. Sign the petition to oppose racial profiling and anti-immigrant raids! |
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Action
Vidéo: Qu'est-ce que le CSTC connaît de votre vie privée? How much does CSEC know about your private life?
OpenMedia.ca - More than ever, Canadians need strong, genuinely transparent, and properly enforced safeguards to secure privacy rights. We call on Government to put in place effective legal measures to protect the privacy of every resident of Canada against intrusion by government entities.
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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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