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Bill C-7 And Our Civil Liberties

Posted on Monday, March 22 at 14:08 by sthompson
The bureaucrats have been testifying all week before the committee, and the questions from the Senators clearly showed that there are a number who are strongly and weakly opposed to it, as well as 2 strongly pushing it (Day and the Chair: Fraser). So that means that there is the possibility, albeit very slim, of stopping the legislation.

Unfortunately, some of the Senators who are the most opposed are not on the Transport committee (Andreuchuk, Beaudoin); the government stacked the deck by sending it to the Transport committee instead of Legal and Constitutional Affairs where it belongs, but would have a much rougher ride.

Canadians, please take urgent action to let the Senators know of your concerns: the committee meet Monday to hear the Ministers involved make their sales pitch. Some of the questions you should be looking for answers to include:

Why is the Senate considering giving 8 different Ministers the Executive power on their sole authority to issue Interim Orders in lieu of laws without first consulting Parliament, and exempts the Orders from being even examined in advance for their legality or constitutionality?

Why does the government want to establish a reserve pool of military judges in the event of martial law?

Why is the Senate considering reintroducing searches without warrant?

Can the Interim Orders under the Quarantine Act be used to order forced vaccinations and/or internment as in the US Homeland Security Act?

Why does the government want to remove the protections of the Privacy Act of their personal data collected by the government within Canada?

Why does the government want to gives the personal data of Canadian travelers without any control on how the information will be used? If you are black-listed in the United States, will you be black-listed from flying in Canada? What can you do about it if you are?

What is the demonstrable need for Big Brother databases in a free and democratic society? Why does the USA get all the personal data of Canadians even when they are not flying to the US?

Please call, email and fax all of the Senators on the Transport Committee:

Joan Fraser (Chair, L) T: 613-943-9556 F: 943-9558 frasej@sen.parl.gc.ca
Leonard Gustafson (PC) T: 613-947-2233 F: 947-2235 gustal@sen.parl.gc.ca
Willie Adams (L) T: 613-992-2753 F: 996-9163 adamsw@sen.parl.gc.ca
Eymard Corbin (L) T: 613-996-8485 F: 995-8432 corbie@sen.parl.gc.ca
Joseph Day (L) T: 613-992-0833 daya@sen.parl.gc.ca
John Eyton (PC) T: 613-943-1460 F: 943-1495 rokosg@sen.parl.gc.ca
B Alistair Graham (L) T: 992-3770 F: 995-5217
Mobina Jaffer (L) T: 613-992-0189 F: 992-0673 jaffem@sen.parl.gc.ca
Janis Johnson (PC) T: 613-943-1430 F: 992-5029 johnsj@sen.parl.gc.ca
Laurier LaPierre (L) T: 613-992-0081 F: 992-0087 lapiel@sen.parl.gc.ca
Gerard Phalen (L) T: 613-996-4680 phaleg@sen.parl.gc.ca
Mira Spivak (Ind) T: 613-995-1488 F: 992-2912 spivam@sen.parl.gc.ca

as well as the Minister responsible for the Senate who is pushing this:

Sharon Carstairs (L) T: 613-947-7123 F: 947-7125 carsts@sen.parl.gc.ca

For more questions, see our submission to the Committee:

http://www.911review.org/Reports/CanadasC17.pdf

For more questions about the Committee, see:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/Committee_SenMembers.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=3&comm_id=19

Note: frasej@sen.parl.gc.ca gustal@sen.parl.gc.ca adamsw@sen.parl.gc.ca corbie@sen.parl.gc.ca daya@sen.parl.gc.ca rokosg@sen.parl.gc.ca jaffem@sen.parl.gc.ca johnsj@sen.parl.gc.ca lapiel@sen.parl.gc.ca phaleg@sen.parl.gc.ca spivam@sen.parl.gc.ca carsts@sen.parl.gc.ca http://www.911review.or... http://www.parl.gc.ca/c...

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  1. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:40 pm
    Scary stuff people! They want to take away your privacy and freedom, and are using stealth measures to do so!<p> An additional email I'd like to add: bankst@sen.parl.gc.ca, Senator Tommy Banks, who's the only Senator to personally return one of my emails. I've also seen him on CPAC specifically critisizing these type of laws.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
    "The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  2. by avatar whelan costen
    Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:35 am
    I agree Dr. Caleb, this is very scary, and why haven't we heard about this? The question is who is behind this, why do we need to be prepared for martial law, is this part of the gun registry agenda, what do they know that we do not? Is Canada under threat from some 'foreign' power, as in the people of Canada, because the real threat to the people is coming through our leadership?

  3. by Jim Callaghan
    Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:02 pm
    How about the fact that the ATF is now in Canada to help with the smuggling of handguns from the US.

    Is this the foot in the door ??




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  4. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:09 pm
    No, Co-operation between agencies is normal. It's about time they did something about the problem. If not at their borders, then at ours.<p><p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
    "The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  5. by sthompson
    Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:13 pm
    From <a href="http://www.caut.ca/english/bulletin/2004_mar/news/c7.asp">http://www.caut.ca/english/bulletin/2004_mar/news/c7.asp</a> <p> On March 4, 2004, CAUT (Canadian Associ of University Teachers) president Victor Catano and executive director James Turk wrote on behalf of CAUT to the Canadian Senate raising concern over Bill C-7: The Public Safety Act. Alarmed at measures contained in the legislation, CAUT is asking the Senate to delay the passage of this bill. We are writing to express our utmost concern about Bill C-7: The Public Safety Act (formerly Bill C-17), which is currently being debated in Senate and is slated for final review by the Senate Transport Committee. This bill allows for the collection of personal information about Canadians and for the sharing of this information with foreign governments with wholly inadequate controls. It represents a grave risk to Canadians' rights and freedoms, and to Canadian sovereignty. <P> In the wake of the Arar case, we are dismayed that our government would remain intent on passing such a law. Clearly it is meant to implement the post-Sept. 11 Smart Border Action Plan negotiated without Parliamentary oversight. The plan envisions the deep integration of Canadian and American police and security intelligence, the merger of databases, the sharing of information and the risk assessment of individuals by data mining computer programs of the type we have seen outlined in the American Total Information Awareness and CAPPS II programs. The inventors of this technology admit it will generate a disturbing percentage of false positive assessments. The dangers of ethnic profiling it presents are obvious. <p> <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1077577809276&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467">Security chief fears for Canadian flights</a> <p> ...But he urged senators to quickly pass Bill C-7, a transport security bill leftover from the Chrétien government that would allow federal agencies to collect information on passengers travelling within Canada and to places other than the United States. <p> Until now, Parliament has authorized only the collection of information on passengers arriving in Canada from abroad, as well as the collection and release to American authorities of information on passengers travelling from Canada to the U.S. <p> "Remember, an awful lot of Canadian flights go through U.S. airspace even when it's between two Canadian cities," Wright said. <p>---<br>Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign.--Rimmer <br />



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