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Thursday, April 25, 2013

DEMOCRACY GOING ONE STEP AT A TIME



Today's Waterloo Region Record advises us that our federal MPs voted 183-93 to pass the Combating Terrorism Act. The title of the article is "MPs grant police "exceptional" powers to probe terror plots". Apparently the Liberals supported the Conservatives with this while the NDP voted and spoke against it. One of the aspects of this Bill is so called preventative arrests. Citizens may now be held in custody for up to three days without being charged. Isn't that just dandy. Currently 24 hours in custody without seeing a judge is the rule. Police forces have for political purposes abused this and now they will have triple the amount of time to hold citizens without laying charges. Clearly our federal MPs either don't know or don't care about current abuses of the law.

Clearly civil liberties groups can see where this is heading. There has been condemnation from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and others. These new exceptional powers are not needed and never have been. They are simply tightening the noose a couple more notches around civil liberties and democracy in Canada. Shame on our federal MPs who supported this.
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