News on Bill C-51
This page is home to all of CJFE's updates on Bill C-51. To learn more about our campaign to stop Bill C-51, click here.
Hard Questions for Canada’s Most Secret Agency
The lack of transparency of Canada’s signals intelligence agency, the CSE, makes it impossible to fully understand how it operates, or how the proposed CSE Act will change elements of its operations. Before having a debate about what the CSE should be allowed to do under the new law, we need to better understand both its past and present conduct.
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The Rise of Canada's Cyber Spies
CJFE and RSF are deeply concerned by measures in Bill C-59, the federal government’s overhaul of Canada’s National Security framework, that threaten the integrity of journalism and the free expression rights of Canadians. The government of Canada must create a National Security framework that upholds human rights and is free from the potential for abuse.
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National security acts—like pop acts—require all the right notes
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, the Government of Canada tabled Bill C-59, An Act respecting national security matters. The proposed act constitutes 150 pages of long-awaited national security legislation. Over the past two years, CJFE has advocated and organized toward this moment. Here's our hot take on the draft Bill.
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Canada Drops out of Top 20 on World Press Freedom Index as Global Press Freedom Recession Intensifies
CJFE is gravely concerned by Canada’s decline in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) annual World Press Freedom Index. On April 26, 2017, RSF unveiled the 2017 Index, which ranks 180 countries according to the level of freedom afforded to journalists. This year, Canada has fallen from 18th to 22nd place, continuing a severe drop over recent years.
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6 times M-103 opponents were inconsistent on free expression
Sometimes legislation becomes controversial. Sometimes legislation that ought to be controversial goes unchallenged. And sometimes legislation is accompanied by a wholly contrived controversy with very little practical substance. This seems to be the case with Motion 103 (“M-103”), introduced by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid from Mississauga-Erin Mills.
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