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alp227

(31,962 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:00 PM Apr 2013

(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.
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(Canada) Government hurries debate on anti-terrorism bill (Original Post) alp227 Apr 2013 OP
You have GOT to be KIDDING ME!!! Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #1
Yup Canuckistanian Apr 2013 #2
U.S., new Northern tier. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #3
 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
1. You have GOT to be KIDDING ME!!!
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:11 PM
Apr 2013

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)
2. Yup
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:22 PM
Apr 2013

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.

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