(Canada) Government hurries debate on anti-terrorism bill
Source: CBC
MPs are debating a controversial anti-terrorism bill that would reinstate provisions for preventive arrest and investigative hearings, measures that were part of a 2001 bill but were "sunsetted" in 2007.
The bill was introduced in the Senate last year, and it's suddenly in third reading in the House, with government members debating it with a sense of urgency.
The bill will bring back two central provisions that were originally instituted by the Chrétien government after the 9/11 attacks in New York but were "sunsetted" after a five-year period.
One provision allowed for "preventative detention," meaning someone can be held in custody for up to three days just on suspicion of being involved in terrorism but without a charge being laid. The person can then be bound by certain probationary conditions for up to a year, and if he or she refuses, can be jailed for 12 months.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/04/22/pol-anti-terrorism-bill-debate-parliament.html
The article doesn't connect this "Canadian PATRIOT Act" to the Boston bombings, but some in the comments section are.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)At the same time they are doing this we get THIS???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014462598
And we are expected to believe it's just a coinkydink?
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)This was a long-dead bill, proposed by the Liberal govt. post 9/11.
NOW it suddenly becomes a priority to Harper's Conservatives.
The timing STINKS to high heaven.