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Revue de l'actualité - News Digest 
19 mars 2015 - March 19, 2015
Législation antiterroriste
Anti-terror legislation  

Une centaine de groupes contre C-51 au nom de la liberté d'expression

La Presse 19/03/2015 -
«La lutte contre le terrorisme doit viser les terroristes, non pas les adversaires politiques du gouvernement fédéral», ont lancé à l'unisson certains représentants de ces groupes, qui ont rencontré la presse, jeudi à Montréal, pour exposer leurs doléances face au projet de loi antiterroriste. À leurs yeux, la définition de ce qui peut être considéré comme une menace à la sécurité nationale, une menace au Canada ou à son développement économique dans ce projet de loi est beaucoup trop large et pourra mener à des dérapages. Des actions et des manifestations comme le blocage d'une route, d'un projet de pipeline, un sit-in ou une grève qui ne respecterait pas les balises du Code canadien du travail pourraient être interprétées comme une entrave au fonctionnement d'infrastructures essentielles, donc visées par la future loi.

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Déclaration commune contre C-51 et liste des signataires

C-51 aurait plombé le mouvement étudiant, selon Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

Bill C-51 would have stifled Quebec's student protests: Ex-leader
 
Montreal Gazette 18/03/2015 - Quebec cabinet ministers sent a letter to their counterparts in Ottawa criticizing Bill C-51 for the "vast powers" it would confer on Canada's spy agency, possibly enabling it to trample constitutional rights. Quebec is the second province to poke holes in the anti-terrorism legislation after B.C. Premier Christie Clark said it threatened personal freedoms. Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée, Public Security Minister Lise Thériault and Government House Leader Jean-Marc Fournier expressed their misgivings in a letter on Tuesday to their counterparts in Ottawa. "It is worrying to note that Bill C-51 would give CSIS such vast powers, including the possibility of conducting actions that would contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms," they wrote. They asked the federal government to provide safeguards that would prevent the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from violating Quebecers' rights. "We would also like that the mechanisms of surveillance and control be better adapted to the new activities and powers of CSIS," the letter said.

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Québec écorche le gouvernement conservateur au sujet du projet de loi C-51 
 
Vice 17/03/2015 - Just weeks after one poll showed a convincing majority supported the Canadian government's sweeping new anti-terrorism law, a new survey suggests that support is dropping, and fast. The Forum Research poll, provided exclusively to VICE, says support for the legislation now stands at 45 percent, with nearly the same amount opposed to the bill. And as scrutiny increases, that support can be expected to drop even further. Of those who are familiar with the proposals in the bill-nearly 70 percent of those asked-support drops even further, with half saying they disapprove of the bill, and only 31 percent supporting it. Opposition proves to be pan-Canadian. British Columbia, the prairies, and Atlantic Canada prove most opposed to the legislation, with only slim pluralities in Alberta and Quebec endorsing the bill. The numbers will be a splash of cold water for the Conservatives, who had counted on the bill, C-51, being a winner, allowing them to drive a wedge between themselves as the opposition parties. The poll shows that strategy likely isn't working. Of those familiar with the bill, decisive majorities of Liberal and NDP supporters do not have a favourable opinion of the bill-66 and 77 percent, respectively. Even 12 percent of Conservatives oppose the broad legislative changes, which would vastly expand information sharing, increase police powers to preventively detain terror suspects, and allow Canada's spies to "disrupt" apparent threats to Canada or her economy.

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Manifestations dans plusieurs villes contre le projet de loi C-51

Thousands gather across Canada to protest proposed anti-terror legislation

Aboriginal leaders fear anti-terror bill gives licence to target them as 'terrorists' in our own territories'

Canadian Library Association statement on Bill C-51 

Democratic process and anti-terrorism
Processus démocratique et anti-terrorisme

Loi antiterroriste : une farce démocratique

L'actualité 13/03/2015 - n'aura pas fallu grand-temps, jeudi, pour se rendre compte que les travaux du comité parlementaire étudiant le projet de loi antiterroriste C-51 seraient un simulacre de consultations. Presque chaque témoin qui avait une critique à formuler s'est fait faire la leçon, a vu ses motivations mises en doute ou s'est fait égratigner par des insinuations malveillantes par les députés conservateurs. Le pire exemple est survenu en soirée, quand la députée conservatrice Diane Ablonczy a interpelé Ishaan Gardee, le directeur du Conseil national du Conseil national des musulmans canadiens, en soutenant que son organisme avait
des liens avec un groupe américain qui appuie le Hamas. Gardant son calme, Ishaan Gardee a vigoureusement nié ces allégations, puis noté qu'il était honteux que la députée profite de son immunité parlementaire pour faire des insinuations dignes de McCarthy et qui ont valu au bureau du premier ministre de se faire poursuivre - une affaire qui est toujours devant les tribunaux. Les députés conservateurs n'étaient pas là et n'y seront pas au cours des prochaines séances pour mieux comprendre le projet de loi, en déceler les lacunes et les corriger. Leur seul rôle est de défendre C-51 coûte que coûte, et de répéter les justifications et explications du ministre de la Sécurité publique, Steven Blaney. Tout est fait à la sauvette : une heure pour chaque série de trois témoins, qui n'ont à peu près jamais le temps de terminer leur présentation et qui n'ont souvent droit à aucune question pour
approfondir leur point de vue. Manque de temps? Tant pis, on passe au suivant
 
Politique et terrorisme
Politics and terrorism
 

The National Post 17/03/2015 -
You might imagine, oh Canadians, that you live in a land of peace, plenty and security. If you're a student of history or economics or both, you might say to yourself of an evening, lounging dockside (it's summer in this fantasy, indulge me), dipping your toes in the lake and listening to the loons, that we are among the luckiest 35 million people of all time. You might imagine all this, but you'd be wrong. For Canada is, in fact, a land of fear. It's like the old ad for dishwashing soap: We're soaking in it. We are terrified, for starters, of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham - that agglomeration of death-worshipping sociopaths who have taken over parts of what used to be Iraq and Syria, a beachhead from which they now threaten to invade the boot of Italy and topple the Roman empire, never mind that Caesar has been gone, lo these past 2,059 years. Despite the psychological edge conferred on ISIS militants by illiteracy, innumeracy, zealotry and plain old stupidity, they really are not able to defeat the combined militaries of the whole world, led by the U.S. Air Force, which owns the sky and space. Yet here we are, locked in a stalemate, a token war in which Canada is participating with half-a-dozen old fighter jets, transport planes and a single company of soldiers. If the threat to our nation were pervasive, we'd have more invested - no disrespect to the Canadians serving valiantly over there now. But the fear certainly feels pervasive. 

 

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Conservatives 'beating drum' on terrorism, says civil liberties lawyer 

 

Justin Trudeau lifted the veil on political tactics in C-51 speech  

 

Monia Mazigh: Once again the bodies of Muslim women are used to justify wars  

    

'It's an issue of the times:' anti-terrorism dominates House, Senate committees 

 

Faisal Kutty: I am not a terrorist 

Surveillance des agences de sécurité
Oversight of security agencies  

iPolitics 16/03/2015 - In much of my reporting on CSIS since the late 1990s, I've been raising the alarm about how the spy service routinely abuses its extraordinary powers. I wasn't alone, of course. Lawyers Paul Copeland and Clayton Ruby, academics like Reg Whitaker, Maureen Webb, Stuart Farson, Steven Hewitt and Sharryn Aiken, and journalists like Canadian Press reporter Jim Bronskill, freelance writer Mathhew Behrens and Now magazine senior news editor Enzo DiMatteo, have tried for years to warn Canadians about the absence of true oversight for this largely unaccountable intelligence agency. I often felt I was whistling in the wind. I watched with dismay as a string of Liberal and Conservative governments gave CSIS more money, people and powers - while the already limp review bodies charged, on paper, with keeping an eye on our spies have been abolished, or politicized and neutered into irrelevance. Recall that in 2012 Stephen Harper shuttered the office of the Inspector General - ostensibly the Public Safety minister's eyes and ears inside CSIS - largely because IGs like David Peel, Maurice Archdeacon and Eva Plunkett were doing too good a job. The spymasters whined and Harper happily obliged them. [...] I haven't been the "spy guy" at a media outlet for years. When I was, however, I understood that I had to convince the grunts inside CSIS to talk to me. Many of them did. More often than not they shared small or big pieces of the truth that I put together like a jigsaw puzzle. That kind of work takes patience, perseverance and ingenuity. My advice to reporters: Ditch the ubiquitous talking heads and find the people who know - for the truth's sake.


Surveillance globale 
Mass surveillance 

Watchdog presses Ottawa for strong rules on sharing surveillance data

Globe and Mail 18/03/2015 - A f
ederal watchdog is urging Ottawa to put strong rules around how it shares its surveillance data, warning that the U.S. National Security Agency and other close allies can put their own intelligence interests first. Allied intelligence agencies have general agreements not to spy on each other, but the review body for Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has reminded Parliament that exceptions exist for every rule. Every "sovereign nation, can derogate from agreements... as dictated by their own national interests," wrote Jean-Pierre Plouffe, a retired judge, in his annual report to Parliament last year. The report gives some context to modern surveillance partnerships and the risk of unpredictable uses of shared information. The risks became clearer this week when The Globe and Mail reported that Rogers Communications Inc. and Royal Bank of Canada are named in a leaked NSA document. The 2012 U.S. intelligence presentation, stamped for sharing with Canada, was describing how intelligence analysts can apply surveillance methods to map out the "private networks" used by global corporations.
 
 
Autres nouvelles - More news
Academic freedom
Liberté académique  
Accès à l'information
Access to information 
Anti-terror legislation
Législation anti-terrorisme  
Border security
Sécurité à la frontière  
Charities and political activities
Organismes de bienfaisance et politique 
Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent  
Démocratie et libertés civiles
Democracy and civil liberties 
Drones 
Freedom of speech
Liberté d'expression
Guantanamo

Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror 
Immigration and refugee rights
Immigration et droits des réfugié.es 
Islamophobie
Islamophobia
Omar Khadr  
Press freedom
Liberté de la presse    
Privacy
Vie privée   
State secret
Secret d'État 
State terrorism
Terrorisme d'État 
Surveillance 
Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
Torture 
Miscellenaous
Divers

Reports link Islamic State recruiter to Canadian Embassy in Jordan


Gun lobby wants federal Conservatives to be more firearm friendly

Aux armes, citoyens

Harper et les armes à feu : un flirt électoral qui va trop loin

Armes à feu: les propos de Harper critiqués de toutes parts

Harper says gun comments did not promote vigilante justice

Draft nuclear deal would cap Iran's centrifuges at 6,000 for decade: officials

CIA money from secret fund ended up in hands of al-Qaida - report

On eve of election, Netanyahu promises no Palestinian State if re-elected

Nétanyahou triomphe sous le regard des leaders occidentaux

After Netanyahu wins Israel vote with racism & vow of permanent occupation, how will world respond?

Palestinian leaders see validation of their statehood effort

Privacy fears over 'smart' Barbie that can listen to your kids

 

 
CETTE SEMAINE / THIS WEEK
 
Action   

Canadian security bill puts your rights at risk    

Amnesty International Canada - Bill C-51, The Anti-Terrorism Act, forms the core of the most comprehensive reforms to the Canada 's national security laws since 2001. Widely expanded powers and new criminal offences raise serious human rights concerns.

Send a message to the Minister for Public Safety calling on him to withdraw Bill C-51 and ensure human rights.


Action   

Send a letter to the editor about "secret police" bill C-51!    

OpenMedia - Stephen Harper's Secret Police Bill C-51 is reckless, dangerous, and ineffective. Harper is trying to ram it through Parliament right now. Let's each take a moment to spread the word in our communities by publishing a letter in local newspapers through this easy-to-use tool.


Action   

Reject fear. Stop Harper's "secret police" bill C-51!    

LeadNow.ca - We call on Party leaders and MPs to reject Stephen Harper's fear campaign and stop the bill, unless it's amended to:
-- Include strong safeguards for Canadians, including a dedicated, high-level Parliamentary committee to oversee our spy agencies.
-- Strip out the outrageous attacks on civil liberties, including the sweeping expansion of spy powers, criminalization of speech, and preventative arrest for those who have committed no crime.
-- Clarify that the vague parts of the bill, to be certain it will only be used to target people who pose a violent threat to the lives and physical security of people

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Watch The Secret Trial 5 online now! 

The ST5 team - We are once again facing a move to place perceived security before individual freedom and, as as our film documents, these tactics have very real human consequences. A recent poll suggested that 80% of Canadians agree with Bill C-51 despite criticism from all over the political spectrum. We aim to change that one tour stop at a time. We believe wholeheartedly that when Canadians see the story of The Secret Trial 5, they will be moved by their sense of compassion, not fear.

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From March 12th to 26th, 2015 in most major Canadian cities!

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Action   

Signez la pétition pour libérer le blogueur saoudien Raif Badawi  



Amnistie internationale - Raif Badawi, prisonnier d'opinion en Arabie saoudite, risque la mort pour avoir offert un débat sur la liberté religieuse.
Exigeons des autorités saoudiennes que les coups de fouet cessent immédiatement, que Raif soit libéré sans condition, et qu'il soit réuni avec sa famille réfugiée au Canada.
Exigeons de cet État qu'il respecte ses obligations en matière de droits humains et qu'il abolisse la flagellation.



English petition
Arar +10   

Watch the Arar +10: National Security and Human Rights, 10 years later conference

Retrospective of the Past Decade
Opening remarks: Retrospective of the Past Decade
Panel 1: The People and Lives Behind the Issues
Panel 1: The People and Lives Behind the Issues
Panel 2: Perspectives from the Media
Panel 2: Perspectives from the Media
Keynote Panel: Judicial Reflections on National Security and Human Rights
Keynote Panel: Judicial Reflections on National Security and Human Rights
Panel 3: Lawyering for Human Rights in a National Security Context
Panel 3: Lawyering for Human Rights in a National Security Context
Panel 4: A View from Community Level
Panel 4: A View from Community Level
Panel 5: Oversight and Review
Panel 5: Oversight and Review
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks

Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG

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.
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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.