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Tories’ Anti-Terror Bill Undermines the Values It’s Meant to Protect
- Analysis
- February 2, 2015
Published in the Toronto Star, February 2, 2015 When a prime minister announces one of the most draconian anti-terrorism bills in his nation’s history — and does this not in the national legislature, but at an election-type campaign stop in a riding his party hopes to hold in a looming election — Canadians should be
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Is This the CSIS We Really Want? The Canadian Intelligence and Black Ops Service
- Analysis
- February 1, 2015
Published on the National Security Law Blog, January 31, 2015 The new antiterrorism bill will change everything. Among other things, in its sweeping changes to CSIS’s powers, it is not tinkering at the margins. It rejects insight from experience, and the wisdom of those who enacted the original CSIS Act. I will be doing very
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Canadian Mission Creep in Iraq? A CIPS Debate – Part 1
- Analysis
- January 30, 2015
For Parts 2 and 3 of this CIPS debate, see the posts by Thomas Juneau and Philippe Lagassé. Published in the Globe and Mail, January 29, 2015 We recently learned that Canadian troops in Iraq are spending about 20 per cent of their effort close to, or right at, the front lines, that they have
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- Analysis
- January 30, 2015
For Parts 1 and 3 of this CIPS debate, see the posts by Roland Paris and Philippe Lagassé Published in the Globe and Mail, January 29, 2015 The government has faced mounting criticism since it announced that special forces’ soldiers deployed to the front lines alongside the Kurdish troops they are advising had exchanged fire
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