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February 13, 2008 Late yesterday, the Senate cleared Bill C-3, an act to re-legislate the security certificate process, which was found to be unconstitutional a year ago by the Supreme Court. “The upper chamber gave the bill on national security certificates third reading after a special committee rushed it through hearings with the caveat that it would like to continue studying the controversial tools,” said a Canadian Press article today. The Senate passed the law under pressure from the Liberal and Conservative governments, despite testimony from some 20 organizations that the proposed amendments to the security certificate – the inclusion of “special advocates,” for instance, who can see part of the CSIS file on the suspected threat to national security – will not survive another Charter challenge. In total, 90 groups, including the Council of Canadians, requested a hearing by the Senate committee on anti-terrorism to dispute Bill C-3. The NDP and Bloc voted against the bill in the House of Commons while the Liberals offered contradictory statements. “This isn’t a bill we would have introduced ourselves,” Ujjal Dosanjh, the Liberal national security critic, told the press earlier this month. "But this is the bill we were presented by the government. “We believe the issue is timely passage (of the legislation) and as a responsible party we want to make sure that’s done.” To read an op-ed on Bill C-3 in today’s Toronto Star by Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Roch Tassé (International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group) and Sameer Zuberi (Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations), click here.
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