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   From: puela@nyet.ca   
      
   Damned the Canadian Constitution, eh, Harper?   
      
   Any such arrests are going to go right to the Supreme Court of Canada.  And   
   they WILL fail.   
   You cannot arrest and imprison a Canadian for an act that they MAY have been   
   contemplating.  And you cannot keep a Canadian from leaving the country.   
      
   Been wondering how our freedoms can be eroded by a government that plays on   
   'terrorism' fears?  Watch closely, you'll see.   
      
   This ugly government needs to be hauled in and then thrown out on its   
   cumulative Conservative ass.   
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   Ottawa Citizen - January 12, 2015   
      
   Anti-terror bill to focus on preventive arrests; possible border laws   
      
      
   The government plans to table an anti-terrorism bill as soon as late January   
   that will likely include preventive arrests to thwart suspected terrorist acts.   
     The government has also hinted at laws concerning border security, but not in   
   specific detail.   
      
   Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last Thursday a new bill is coming soon,   
   which would likely contain “additional powers to make sure that our security   
   agencies have the range of tools available to them to identify potential terror   
   threats and to take arrests and other actions — detention and arrests and   
   other   
   actions — where necessary.”   
      
   Harper said to expect legislation soon after Parliament returns Jan. 26. “I   
   anticipate that we will be moving forward very early in the new session,” he   
   said.   
      
   Since the Oct. 22 shooting, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has repeatedly   
   said his government was contemplating laws to allow preventive arrests.   
      
   In late October, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told a Senate committee he’d   
   like the government to lower its threshold for getting a peace bond against   
   individuals lowered to “a reasonable suspicion.”   
      
   Peace bonds are court orders that restrict the movement of people not found   
   guilty of an offence but deemed a risk to others.  They also mean stiffer   
   sentences for someone if later found guilty of a crime.   
      
   Upcoming legislation may also include border service provisions, though the   
   government has not confirmed this.   
      
   On a November visit to Paris, Blaney told French media his government would   
   consider emulating laws France has recently passed.   
      
   Those laws include a six-month travel ban, renewable up to two years, on   
   citizens police suspect want to join terror groups abroad.  Another law allows   
   France to ban European Union citizens and their families when authorities feel   
   they present a threat to the country’s national security.   
      
   Meanwhile, MP Roxanne James, Blaney’s parliamentary secretary, suggested last   
   Friday on CBC’s Power and Politics that the legislation could also include   
   border services provision.   
      
   “We need to make sure that the security of our country — of our borders   
   — is   
   paramount in this piece of legislation,” James said.   
      
   Blaney has said the government will not introduce exit controls, a procedure   
   many countries use where anyone leaving the country first has their passport   
   inspected by border agents.   
      
   The only legislation the government has introduced since the Oct. 20 and 22   
   attacks was a bill to give Canada’s spy agency more powers in operations   
   abroad   
   and promising informants confidentiality.  That bill was drafted prior to the   
   attacks and has been in the works for over a year.  It has reached Second   
   Reading in the House of Commons and still needs Senate approval.   
      
   Last week, Harper chose Richard Fadden as his new national security adviser.   
   The former head of the spy agency Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)   
   will help Harper co-ordinate security agencies and advise what legislation is   
   needed.   
      
   NDP and Liberal MPs have repeatedly said any new legislation must come with   
   safeguards to ensure they don’t infringe on freedoms.   
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