About time!!!
Conservatives weigh new powers for police after Ottawa shooting
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...police-after-ottawa-shooting/article21296410/
The Conservative government is vowing to move quickly on two fronts to strengthen the powers of Canada’s spy agency and police forces in the wake of the killings of two soldiers this week – including a contentious measure to alter the threshold for preventative arrest.
New legislation giving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) the ability to better hide the identities of its informants and allow Canada to share more intelligence information with its allies is to be tabled in the House of Commons as early as Monday or Tuesday, according to a senior government source.
In addition, Justice Minister Peter MacKay told The Globe and Mail on Friday that, in co-operation with other departments and agencies, he is “exploring a broad array of options, including legislative and preventative” to help better protect Canadians.
Measures now under consideration include changing the so-called threshold for preventative arrests and more closely tracking and monitoring people who may pose a threat, such as requiring them to check in with an officer regularly even without any charges against them. Being looked at, too, is potential legislation that would make it a crime to support terrorists’ acts online, says a senior government source.
Mr. MacKay wrote in an e-mail that new measures “will build on our record of better equipping our security forces and law enforcement with the critical tools they need to intercept and disrupt threats and ultimately convict and incarcerate those who pose a danger to Canadian families and communities.”
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Conservatives weigh new powers for police after Ottawa shooting
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...police-after-ottawa-shooting/article21296410/
The Conservative government is vowing to move quickly on two fronts to strengthen the powers of Canada’s spy agency and police forces in the wake of the killings of two soldiers this week – including a contentious measure to alter the threshold for preventative arrest.
New legislation giving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) the ability to better hide the identities of its informants and allow Canada to share more intelligence information with its allies is to be tabled in the House of Commons as early as Monday or Tuesday, according to a senior government source.
In addition, Justice Minister Peter MacKay told The Globe and Mail on Friday that, in co-operation with other departments and agencies, he is “exploring a broad array of options, including legislative and preventative” to help better protect Canadians.
Measures now under consideration include changing the so-called threshold for preventative arrests and more closely tracking and monitoring people who may pose a threat, such as requiring them to check in with an officer regularly even without any charges against them. Being looked at, too, is potential legislation that would make it a crime to support terrorists’ acts online, says a senior government source.
Mr. MacKay wrote in an e-mail that new measures “will build on our record of better equipping our security forces and law enforcement with the critical tools they need to intercept and disrupt threats and ultimately convict and incarcerate those who pose a danger to Canadian families and communities.”
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