On April 24, 2013 Parliament passed Bill S-7, known as the Combating Terrorism Act. With this action, Parliament stripped away vital protections for citizens in favour of unnecessary and ineffective measures to confront terrorism. This act unjustifiably expands the scope … Read More
Media Coverage
Family raise questions after police watchdog finds no fault in RCMP shooting of troubled war veteran
Posted onBy TheProvince.com Published on May 1, 2013 B.C.’s police watchdog has ruled that four RCMP officers acted appropriately when the attempted arrest of a distraught former soldier ended in his death. Independent Investigations Office director Richard Rosenthal has … Read More
Public Lives: What Eroding Privacy Means for Democracy
Posted onOn November 14th, 2012 Policy Director Micheal Vonn delivered a full length address on the subject of the important interplay between privacy, surveillance, and democracy. Click here to hear the audio recording of the lecture. This public lecture was in collaboration … Read More
Deportation Is Not Entertainment
Posted onOn March 21, 2013 the BCCLA filed a formal complaint with the federal Privacy Commissioner on behalf of a migrant worker who had been filmed for the Canada Border Services Agency’s reality television series. The complaint, brought by the BCCLA with … Read More
How the New Medical Cannabis Regulations Are Set to Throw Patients Under the Bus
Posted onCanada was among the very first countries to acknowledge a constitutional right for qualified patients to use medical cannabis. It’s almost as if the federal government decided that as penance for this inadvertent progressivism, we should develop the worst … Read More
Complaint filed with federal privacy watchdog over on-camera immigration raid
Posted onBy Rebekah Funk/News1130.com Published on March 21, 2013 VANCOUVER – A migrant worker who unwittingly starred in a reality television show about Canadian border guards was already back in Mexico on Thursday, when a rights group filed an … Read More
Civil liberties group says Canada Border Services violated rights of migrant worker
Posted onBy Jessica Barrett/VancouverSun.com Published on March 20, 2013 Oscar Mata was one of eight men arrested by CBSA agents on March 13 while working at a construction site on Victoria Drive. The raid was filmed for the reality … Read More
Challenging voter ID laws: BCCLA talks to CBC’s Power & Politics
Posted onNothing is more fundamental to our democracy than the right to vote. Changes to the Elections Act may deny some of the most vulnerable in our society from making their mark at the polls on election day. Counsel Raji Mangat … Read More
