Today, BCCLA Senior Counsel Carmen Cheung appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security to present the BCCLA’s position on Bill S-7. This bill seeks to resurrect the preventative detention and investigative hearing provisions … Read More
National Security Blog
One more birthday in Guantánamo
Posted on*Update* Omar Khadr was finally repatriated to Canada on September 29. Under Canadian law, he will be eligible for release under parole by June 2013. But his return does not mean an end to his story. Canada must take steps to … Read More
In the Mind of the Minister
Posted onOn Thursday, former Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day appeared in a Vancouver courtroom to testify in Mohammad Mahjoub’s ongoing challenge to his security certificate. The BCCLA National Security Blog went down to the Federal Court to watch. Mr. Day … Read More
The Bureaucratization of Misconduct
Posted onEarlier this year, Jim Bronskill reported on a series of very disturbing ministerial directives at CSIS relating to the use of information derived from torture and sharing information that could lead to torture. In February, Mr. Bronskill reported on a … Read More
Ten Years of Shame
Posted onJuly 27, 2012 marks the ten-year anniversary of Omar Khadr’s capture by American troops in Afghanistan. Ten years since the 15-year old boy from Toronto was taken from a battlefield, unconscious after having been shot twice in the back and … Read More
Surrendered
Posted onLast week, Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson ordered the surrender of Hassan Diab to the Republic of France. As readers of these pages will know, Mr. Diab is a Canadian citizen whose extradition is being sought in connection with a … Read More
No means no, redux
Posted onJust when it looks like the ministerial directives at CSIS couldn’t get more troubling, Jim Bronskill and his Access to Information requests uncover ever more disturbing material. As readers of these pages will recall, last month, Mr. Bronskill reported on … Read More
Read before crossing
Posted onIf you’re like us at the BCCLA National Security Blog, you store a lot of personal and private information on your laptops, smart phones, and other portable electronic devices. Today, we published a handbook (and a pocket guide!) to help … Read More
What’s bogus?
Posted onThe government is keeping us busy this week. Two days after tabling the “lawful access” bill, government tabled Bill C-31, the so-called “Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act”, a draconian overhaul of the immigration laws aimed at “getting tough” on “bogus” … Read More
Access this
Posted onThis morning, the government tabled its so-called “lawful access” bill — which, if enacted, would enormously expand the ability of law enforcement agencies to engage in telecommunications surveillance (and for certain types of information, without even the benefit of a … Read More
