Canada’s Anti-
Terrorism Laws- Bills C36, C22, C35, C42
What
this bill does is really codify militarization and a police state
The other thing the
Bill does is that it can convict you of facilitating terrorism without
any knowledge or intent. The government pretended that they changed
the definition, but they didn’t. They changed it in one section and
they took it away in another. Even if you don’t know you are
facilitating, you are going to get caught. So the guy who sells the
envelopes and the stamps at the corner store in my view is
facilitating terrorism when the purchaser puts anthrax in them and
mails them off, whether he knows it or not.
Then there is the
72 hour arrest on suspicion. The only test here is you can be held
here for 72 hours without being charged on suspicion. That is not a
test. That is not even a smell test. What is the suspicion going to be
based on? It will be based on another portion of the Bill which allows
the Court and police “in determining whether an accused participates
in or contributes to any activity of a terrorist group the court may
consider among other factors whether the accused uses a name, word,
symbol, or other representation that identifies or is associated with
the terrorist group”.
Now if I look around this room, I can probably pick out five or six
women here who I find suspicious because the legislation allows it. So
if you use the same religious or codeful symbols that some terrorist
group has misappropriated for their own purpose, even though they are
valid religious or cultural symbols of Islam or being Arab or being
Tamil or being Sikh, then the legislation grants the police and the
Courts the right to use that as the basis of suspicion. In my language
that is just racist profiling. Racism, that is all it is.
So the 72 hour detentions are also problematic because there is no
stop to the revolving door. One police officer on suspicion will
arrest you for the 72 hours. You are released. That is not to say they
can’t come back in 12 hours or 12 minutes and re-arrest you on another
suspicion. So you can go around the revolving door this way. And they
can put conditions on you similar to bail conditions even though you
are not charged or arrested with anything, for a year at least without
charging.
That also goes for
the confiscation of property. These secret trials allow for the
confiscation of property as well. So your daughter has a friend who is
Muslim who has a brother who may be associated with a group that is on
the list. Let’s say there is any money that transfers. Let’s say your
daughter is helping you with the mortgage, but she gets some help from
her brother to pay the mortgage. They can and will confiscate your
house. You will never know why.
Lastly, I want to
say I personally find all this legislation C36, C35, C22, C 42
offensive: C35 which broadens state immunity to state terrorists or
dignitaries from abroad from international organization. If they are
terrorists its OK. They are immune from our law; C22 that makes
lawyers spies for the government. They have to report suspicious
activity and not tell their client; and C42 that’s just been
introduced which allows ministers to delegate authority to their
officers to declare military security zones on the spot, issue orders
on the spot, and nobody can discuss the orders, even the subject of
the order, because if you discuss it or publicize it, that’s a
separate criminal offence;
CSIS secret
trials: CSIS secret trials in our Immigration law resulted from
pressure from the
USA
against the Muslim and Arab communities. The Mulroney government put
in the secret trial provisions back in the 80’s
This thing has to
do with giving globalization a military and police state so that
nobody can protest.
If you read the
Bill, this Bill (C36) should be 10 pages thick. You go to the Criminal
Code. You enact terrorism, and you’re done.
Go for more
details at :
http://www.911review.org/Wget/scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca/Special_Activities/Galati_Page.html