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ANTI-TERROR LAWS
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LIBERALS URGE CONSERVATIVES TO RESPOND TO ANTI-TERRORISM REVIEWS |
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The Conservative government must stop playing politics with Canada's anti-terror laws and undertake serious consideration of the 100 recommendations contained in two Parliamentary reports on the Anti-terrorism Act, Liberal Public Safety Critic Sue Barnes said this week.
"With (the) arrival of the completed report of the Subcommittee on the Review of the Anti-terrorism Act and the earlier Senate report on the same issue, the Conservative government has now received two comprehensive reviews of Canada's anti-terror laws, which have contained 100 recommendations between them," said Barnes.
"The Harper government must either implement these recommendations or provide the House with detailed reasons as to why it will not."
The report released this week, authored by a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, contains 60 recommendations covering the following 10 areas:
* Terrorist Activity Offences;
* Terrorist Financing and Terrorism-related Property;
* Listing of Terrorist Entities;
* De-registration of Charities;
* Changes to the Canada Evidence Act;
* The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the CSE Commissioner;
* Security of Information Act;
* Security Certificates under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act;
* Panel of Special Counsel; and
* Review and Oversight (including a National Security Committee of Parliamentarians).
Barnes noted this report and the report of the Special Senate Committee on the Anti-terrorism Act released in February are the result of years of work, hundreds of hours of testimony and thousands of pages of submissions from expert witnesses - and they therefore deserve appropriate consideration by the government.
"While there may be valid reasons for not acting on a particular recommendation, the government owes it to Canadians to explain to Parliament in a timely manner precisely why any of these recommendations cannot be acted upon," said Barnes.
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