Support our fight against C-51
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 July 2015 19:30
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Today the Toronto Star reported the RCMP's concerns that C-51 will hurt — not help — Canadian security efforts.
“The RCMP...is concerned that CSIS threat-diminishment activities in a foreign country...could inadvertently jeopardize existing relationships on particular investigations.” -RCMP deputy commissioner Mike CabanaThe documents, obtained via access to information request, are just the latest in a long string of indications that Bill C-51 makes use less safe, while coming at an immense cost to our rights and freedoms.
It's time to fight back
The BC Civil Liberties Association and our allies across the country have been fighting hard against Bill C-51 from the very beginning. Bill C-51 is unconstitutional and it is dangerous. It must be repealed. And if not repealed, it must be fought in the courts.
Today a legal challenge was filed against Bill C-51 by civil society groups.1 This is just the beginning.
This new law will affect all Canadians, and we think it will have a disproportionately harmful impact on people of colour, on Muslim Canadians, on Indigenous peoples and on those who organize in dissent to government policies and priorities. This is why we work so hard to hold our national security agencies to account. Read more here.
We couldn’t do any of this without your support.
Thanks for sharing our commitment to protecting all of our rights,
Josh Paterson, Executive Director
and the BCCLA team
1. Today's suit was filed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The BCCLA, Amnesty International Canada, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, La Ligue des Droits et Libertés and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, and the CCLA have partnered to oppose the changes proposed by Bill C-51 since the bill was first proposed.r0
