What the government forgot to mention
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A Different Shade of Green Paper: What the government forgot to mention
Dear friends,
Good news! The federal government recently launched the much-anticipated National Security Consultation.
This is an unprecedented opportunity to weigh in on the radical changes to our national security landscape like Bill C-51.
So, here’s what we’re going to do.
We're launching a blog series outlining the rights issues that you may want to consider in your submission to the national security consultation.
In order to help “prompt discussion and debate about Canada’s national security framework” the federal government has released a “Green Paper”* document as a backgrounder to all kinds of national security issues that the government is keen to hear our views on.
The bad news is that, in the main, it reads like it was drafted by a public relations firm tasked with selling the current state of extraordinary, unaccountable powers. Hmmmm…. Not perhaps the most helpful resource.
BCCLA is going to help create a National Security Different-Shade-of-Green Paper in a few different formats, including short, snappy, accessible, pertinent and super-helpful blogs.
Topics we anticipate addressing range from surveillance to no-fly lists to CSIS powers to encryption and data retention. Aka: lots.
Please answer the quick survey and stay tuned for the unfurling of the blog series.
We hope this series will be a helpful tool for citizens across the country. We encourage you to share it and get your friends signed up for email updates.
Talk soon,
Micheal Vonn, Policy Director
and the BCCLA team
*What the heck is a green paper? A green paper is a tentative government report and consultation document of policy proposals for debate and discussion, without any commitment to action—the first step in changing the law.
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