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Au tour du Barreau de craindre C-51
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Democratic process and anti-terrorism
Processus démocratique et anti-terrorisme
Anti-Terrorism Act House committee hearings a 'sham,' say opposition MPsHill Times 23/03/2015 - The House Public Safety Committee, studying the federal government's controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill C-51, will hold marathon meetings this week to hear from 36 witnesses over four days, but opposition MPs say the entire process is not only a sham, but a contempt of Parliament. Opposition MPs say witness testimony has been rushed and MPs won't have enough time to properly consider feedback before diving into clause-by-clause consideration. The amendments are due March 27 and the deadline for clause-by-clause consideration is March 31. Some key witnesses requested by opposition MPs on the committee have not been invited to testify at committee, while other important witnesses have declined invitations. Moreover, despite being on witness wish-lists, Canada's Privacy Commissioner  Daniel Therrien, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, former SIRC chair Deborah Grey, former CSIS Inspector General Eva Plunkett, former SIRC chair Chuck Strahl, and former Public Safety minister Stockwell Day, among others, have not yet been invited to appear as witnesses as of publication deadline last week. "The hearing process is a sham. They're not listening to witnesses," said Green Party leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.). "Not inviting an officer of Parliament who has critiqued the bill, as Daniel Therrien has, is a scandal. This is contempt of Parliament... Everything about this Bill and the process of applying time allocations, pushing things through using an omnibus bill-I don't even know at this stage that the committee will hear from a single witness who understands what part five is about, which is Immigration and Refugee Act amendments," Ms. May said. Read more - Lire plus Conservatives are now calling criticisms of Bill C-51 "conspiracy theories"Beyond dirty politics: Harperism threatens democracy itself
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
The Huffington Post 26/03/2015 - A civil liberties group says newly disclosed Canadian Security Intelligence Service records on protest surveillance bolster its formal complaint that spies went too far in eyeing environmental activists. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has asked the Security Intelligence Review Committee to consider the documents - which reveal CSIS deliberations on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline - as it investigates the spying allegations. The association  filed a complaint with the review committee in February 2014 after media reports suggested that CSIS and other government agencies consider opposition to the petroleum industry a threat to national security. The complaint also cited reports that CSIS had shared information with the National Energy Board about "radicalized environmentalist" groups seeking to participate in the board's hearings on Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, which would see Alberta crude flow to westward to Kitimat, B.C. The groups included Leadnow, ForestEthics Advocacy Association, the Council of Canadians, the Dogwood Initiative, EcoSociety, the Sierra Club of British Columbia, and the aboriginal rights movement Idle No More.
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Surveillance globale
Mass surveillance
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Politique et terrorisme
Politics and terrorism
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Ressource
Bill C-51: List of briefs presented to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security
The ICLMG has compiled a non-exhaustive list of briefs and speaking notes presented to the House of  Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51. Consult them here
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Action
Tell your MP to oppose Bill C-51!
OpenMedia - The government's Secret Police Bill C-51 is reckless, dangerous, and ineffective. The bill will recklessly turn CSIS into a secret police force, dangerously undermine our democratic rights, while subjecting law-abiding Canadians to  ineffective dragnet surveillance and information sharing. The government is trying to ram it through Parliament right now - we urgently need to tell MPs to reject this extreme legislation. Let's each take a moment to write to our local MP through this easy-to-use tool! 
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Film
Citizenfour: Free screening at Bytowne
PSAC - Citizenfour chronicles the eight days Edward Snowden spent in a Hong Kong hotel room with filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald, where Snowden blew the  whistle on the United States' secret data-collection programs and the complicity of foreign governments, including Canada's, in those efforts. Thursday April 9th 6:45pm Bytowne Cinema DetailsFacebook event
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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.
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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
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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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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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informations, par exemple en s'infiltrant et faisant dérailler une opération. Auparavant, ce rôle était réservé aux corps policiers à qui les renseignements inquiétants étaient transférés. Ce « rôle cinétique perturbateur rehausse nos craintes », écrit l'ABC dans le résumé de son mémoire présenté en comité parlementaire mercredi soir. Ce nouveau rôle du SCRS ne connaît presque aucune limite. Tout au plus les agents du SCRS ne pourront-ils pas causer la mort et des lésions corporelles ou violer l'intégrité physique de quelqu'un. Si le SCRS entend poser des gestes illégaux ou qui contreviennent à la Charte des droits et libertés, il devra demander l'autorisation d'un juge. L'ABC s'insurge contre cette « situation sans précédent ». D'autant plus que c'est le SCRS qui déterminera seul dans son coin, en amont, si les gestes qu'il envisage seront illégaux. C'est donc lui qui décidera s'il devrait réclamer un mandat de juge.
problem. The privacy-related concerns stem from Bill C-51's Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, a bill within the bill that goes far further than sharing information related to terrorist activity. It does so in three steps. First, the bill permits information-sharing across government for an incredibly wide range of purposes, most of which have nothing to do with terrorism. Second, the scope of sharing is exceptionally broad, covering 17 government institutions with government granting itself the right to expand sharing to other departments. Third, Bill C-51 effectively neuters the core protections found in the Privacy Act by opening the door to the very kind of information-sharing that the law is intended to prevent.
whether to give intelligence officials the power to disrupt national security threats, says Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, the respected internet research group at University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. Details of the CSE's capabilities are revealed in several top-secret documents analyzed by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, a U.S. news website co-founded by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who obtained the documents from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden. The CSE toolbox includes the ability to redirect someone to a fake website, create unrest by pretending to be another government or hacker, and siphon classified information out of computer networks, according to experts who viewed the documents.
that claims to the contrary are inaccurate or wrong. But CSE's own rebuttals don't hold water. "Targeting" doesn't mean what most Canadians might believe it would. For CSE, collecting Canadians' metadata, such as email addresses, Internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers, Facebook identifiers, Google identifiers, geolocation information, websites visited, phone numbers, types of communications engaged in, file downloads, and more, doesn't constitute "targeting" Canadians. Instead, the mass collection of this information is done "incidentally."
