Bill C-51:
Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security Transcripts and Report & Selected Commentaries and Analyses
updated 24 June 2015
Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts, available at http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=6932136&File=4
Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security:
Transcripts and Report
- Transcripts of meetings:
- Report on Bill C-51 http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=7905124&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=2
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Selected Commentaries and Analyses
Amnesty International. Insecurity and Human Rights: Concerns and Recommendations with Respect to Bill C-51, The Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015. Submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, 9 March 2015, available at http://www.amnesty.ca/news/news-releases/insecurity-and-human-rights-canada%E2%80%99s-proposed-national-security-laws-fall-short
Bellegarde, Perry, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Statement to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, 12 March 2015, AFN, available http://www.afn.ca/index.php/en/national-chief/highlights-from-the-national-chief/presentation-to-the-standing-committee-on-public-safety-and-national-s
BC Civil Liberties Association. Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Bill C-51, Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, April 2015, Carmen Cheung. https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/BC-Civil-Liberties-Association-Submissions-on-Bill-C-51-Antiterrorism-Act-2015-Senate.pdf
Canadian Civil Liberties Association, CCLA Responds to New Anti-Terror Legislation 2015, 1 February 2015, available at http://ccla.org/2015/02/01/ccla-responds-to-new-anti-terror-legislation-2015/
Canadian Council for Refugees. Comments on Bill C-51 (Anti-Terrorism Act), available at http://ccrweb.ca/sites/ccrweb.ca/files/c-51-comments-2015.pdf
Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association, Briefing note re: Bill C-51: An Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/256599936/CMLA-Briefing-Note-on-Bill-C-51
Canadian professors of law and related disciplines, Open Letter to Parliament: Amend C-51 or Kill It, Walrus, http://thewalrus.ca/open-letter-to-parliament-amend-c-51-or-kill-it/
Champ Paul, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Submissions To The Standing Committee On Public Safety And National Security, March 2015. http://iclmg.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/03/ICLMG-BRIEF-TO-THE-STANDING-COMMITTEE-C-51.pdf
Chrétien, Jean, Joe Clark, Paul Martin and John Turner. “A close eye on security makes Canadians safer.” Globe and Mail, 19 February 2015, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/a-close-eye-on-security-makes-canadians-safer/article23069152/
Coon Come, Matthew, Why Bill C-51 is a threat to aboriginal rights, The Globe and Mail, Wednesday, Apr. 08 2015. Matthew Coon Come is the Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and the Chair of the Cree Nation Government. Available here http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-bill-c-51-is-a-threat-to-aboriginal-rights/article23830829/
Forcese, Craig and Roach, Kent, “Proposed Amendments to Bill C-51, Antiterrorism Act 2015 (March 10, 2015),” available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2576202
Geist, Michael, Three Disastrous Consequences for Privacy, Rabble, 20 February 2015, available at http://rabble.ca/news/2015/02/three-disastrous-privacy-consequences-bill-c-51
Geist, Michael, “Total Information Awareness”: The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51,” available at http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/02/total-information-awareness-disastrous-privacy-consequences-bill-c-51/
Geist, Michael, Why The Anti-Terrorism Bill is Really an Anti-Privacy Bill: Bill C-51′s Evisceration of Privacy Protection, available at http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/why-the-anti-terrorism-bill-is-really-an-anti-privacy-bill-bill-c-51s-evisceration-of-government-privacy/
Greenpeace Canada, Presentation to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51, March 12, 2015, available at http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/Global/canada/file/2015/03/Greenpeace%20C51%20presentation.pdf.
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG), Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51: Speaking Notes by lawyer Paul Champ, available at http://iclmg.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/03/Bill-C51-ICLMG-Paul-Champ.pdf
Law Union of Ontario – Brief to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51, available at http://iclmg.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/03/Law-Union-of-Ontario-Brief.pdf
La Ligue des droits et libertés et al, Déclaration commune contre le projet de loi antiterroriste C-51, available at http://liguedesdroits.ca/?p=2656
Ling Justin, “New powers to combat terrorism,” National, Canadian Bar Association, January 2015, http://nationalmagazine.ca/Articles/January-2014/New-powers-to-combat-terrorism.aspx
Mendel, Toby. “Legal Analysis of the Proposed Bill C-51, the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act, 2015,” Commissioned by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE, 11 May 2015, available at http://www.osce.org/fom/156261?download=true.
Mendes, Errol, Bill C-51 threatens to sacrifice liberty for security, Toronto Star 24 February 2015, available at http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/02/24/bill-c-51-threatens-to-sacrifice-liberty-for-security.html
McClurg, Michael, “C-51 May be a “blank cheque” to stifle indigenous dissent, Law Blog Olthius Kleer Townshend LLP, available at http://www.oktlaw.com/blog/bill-c-51-could-be-a-blank-cheque-to-the-government-to-stifle-indigenous-dissent/
Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, Open letter to the Honourable Stephen Harper, 6 March 2015, available at
http://www.kahnawake.com/org/docs/StephenharperBill_C-51.pdf
Palmater, Pamela, “Does C-51 make Indigenous Activists Terrorists?” Rabble, 12 February 2015, available at http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pamela-palmater/2015/02/harper-may-have-just-turned-indigenous-activists-terrorists
Dr. Pamela D. Palmater, Presentation to Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51 – Anti-Terrorism Act,24 March 2015. http://www.pampalmater.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1-law.pdf.
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Roach, Kent and Forcese, Craig, Bill C-51 Backgrounder #1: The New Advocating or Promoting Terrorism Offence (February 3, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2560006 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2560006
Forcese, Craig and Roach, Kent, Bill C-51 Backgrounder #2: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s Proposed Power to ‘Reduce’ Security Threats Through Conduct that May Violate the Law and Charter (February 12, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2564272 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2564272
Roach, Kent and Forcese, Craig, Bill C-51 Backgrounder # 3: Sharing Information and Lost Lessons from the Maher Arar Experience (February 16, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2565886 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2565886
Rubin, Ken. Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51, available at http://iclmg.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/03/C-51-Ken-Rubin-submission.pdf
Ruby, Clayton and Nader Hasan. Canada: Bill C-51 – A Legal Primer. Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, 18 February 2015, available at http://www.lrwc.org/canada-bill-c-51-a-legal-primer/ and https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/bill-c-51-legal-primer
Ruby, Clayton and Nader Hasan, Le projet de loi C-51 : Un examen de la loi – Des réformes antiterroristes inutiles et trop vagues pourraient criminaliser la liberté de parole
Stryker, Alyssa, and Carmen Cheung, “8 things you need to know about Bill C-51,” BC Civil Liberties Association, 11 March 2015, https://bccla.org/2015/03/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-bill-c-51/
Therrien, Daniel, Bill, C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015: Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security of the House of Commons, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, available https://www.priv.gc.ca/parl/2015/parl_sub_150305_e.asp
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, “C-51 and Indigenous title,” available at
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/UBCICNews02201501.html#axzz3SliZU6oX
Voices, “Bill C-51: Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015,” 5 March 2015, http://voices-voix.ca/en/facts/profile/bill-c-51-anti-terrorism-act-2015
Bill C-51, Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, Submissions to Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security by the Law Society of BC, March 2015, https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/docs/newsroom/highlights/Submission-BillC-51.pdf
