Security Bill-7 before senate

Subject: Canada's Patriot Act 3 before the Senate


The Senate is holding hearings into Bill C-7 the latest piece of Canada's 
police state legislation. This bill is the third version of it that they 
have tried to pass over the last 2 years: it was C-42 then C-55 then C-17, 
now called C-7.

This bill is horrific: it gives unlimited power without parliamentary 
review to 8 different ministers in the form of interim orders, with an 
explicit exemption from the orders being examined for their legality or 
constitutionality. It gives these orders under the Quarantine Act, and 
provides National Defense with a reserve pool of military judges to prepare 
for the event of martial law,
so it's truly frightening; all of us who have examined the bill feel it 
must be stopped by any means, although we recognize that stopping 
legislation in the Senate is rare and very difficult.


The bureaucrats have been testifying all week before the committee, and the 
questions from the Senators clearly showed that there are a number who are 
strongly and weakly opposed to it, as well as 2 strongly pushing it (Day 
and the Chair: Fraser).  So that means that there is the possibility, 
albeit very slim, of stopping the legislation.

Unfortunately, some of the Senators who are the most opposed are not on the 
Transport committee (Andreuchuk, Beaudoin); the government stacked the deck 
by sending it to the Transport committee instead of Legal and 
Constitutional Affairs where it belongs, but would have a much rougher ride.

Canadians, please take urgent action to let the Senators know of your 
concerns: the committee meet Monday to hear the Ministers involved make 
their sales pitch. Some of the questions you should be looking for answers 
to include:
Why is the Senate considering giving 8 different Ministers the Executive 
power on their sole authority to issue Interim Orders in lieu of laws 
without first consulting Parliament, and exempts the Orders from being even 
examined in advance for their legality or constitutionality?


Why does the government want to establish a reserve pool of military judges 
in the event of martial law?


Why is the Senate considering reintroducing searches without warrant?


Can the Interim Orders under the Quarantine Act be used to order forced 
vaccinations and/or internment as in the US Homeland Security Act?


Why does the government want to remove the protections of the Privacy  Act 
of their personal data collected by the government within Canada?

Why does the government want to give the personal data of Canadian 
travelers without any control on how the information will be used? If you 
are black-listed in the United States, will you be black-listed from flying 
in Canada? What can you do about it if you are?


What is the demonstrable need for Big Brother databases in a free  and 
democratic society? Why does the USA get all the personal data of Canadians 
even when they are not flying to the US?


Please call, email and fax all of the Senators on the Transport Committee:


Joan Fraser (Chair, L) T: 613-943-9556 F: 943-9558 [email protected]
Leonard Gustafson (PC) T: 613-947-2233 F: 947-2235 [email protected]
Willie Adams (L) T: 613-992-2753 F: 996-9163 [email protected]
Eymard Corbin (L) T: 613-996-8485 F: 995-8432 [email protected]
Joseph Day (L) T: 613-992-0833 [email protected]
John Eyton (PC) T: 613-943-1460 F: 943-1495 [email protected]
B Alistair Graham (L) T: 992-3770 F: 995-5217 [email protected]
  Mobina Jaffer (L) T: 613-992-0189 F: 992-0673  [email protected]
Janis Johnson (PC) T: 613-943-1430 F: 992-5029 [email protected]
Laurier LaPierre (L) T: 613-992-0081 F: 992-0087 [email protected]
Gerard Phalen (L) T: 613-996-4680 [email protected]
Mira Spivak (Ind) T: 613-995-1488 F: 992-2912 [email protected]


as well as the Minister responsible for the Senate who is pushing this:
Sharon Carstairs (L) T: 613-947-7123 F: 947-7125 [email protected]

For more questions, see our submission to the Committee:
http://www.911review.org/Reports/CanadasC17.pdf

For more questions about the Committee, see:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/Committee_SenMembers.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=3&comm_id=19 




At the URL below is a list of all the areas being affected by  Bill 
C-7.----It is a 'MUST READ'.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c7&source=library_prb&Parl=37&Ses=3#ainterpretationtxt

BILL C-7:  THE PUBLIC SAFETY ACT, 2002

Prepared by:
David Goetz, David Johansen, Margaret Young, Law and Government Division
Michel Rossignol, Political and Social Affairs Division
Jean-Luc Bourdages, François Côté, Science and Technology Division
12 February 2004


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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF BILL C-7

       HOUSE OF COMMONS
      SENATE

       Bill Stage
      Date
      Bill Stage
      Date

       First Reading:
       11 February 2004
      First Reading:
      11 February 2004

       Second Reading:

      Second Reading:
      11 March 2004

       Committee Report:

      Committee Report:


       Report Stage:

      Report Stage:


       Third Reading:

      Third Reading:





       Royal Assent:
       Statutes of Canada




       N.B. Any substantive changes in this Legislative Summary which have 
been made since the preceding issue are indicated in bold print.


  INTRODUCTION

On 11 February 2004, the Honourable Tony Valeri, Minister of Transport, 
introduced in the House of Commons Bill C-7, An Act to amend certain Acts 
of Canada, and to enact measures for implementing the Biological and Toxin 
Weapons Convention, in order to enhance public safety - known as the Public 
Safety Act, 2002.  The Bill is the former Bill C-17, and was reinstated as 
C-7 pursuant to the motion adopted by the House of Commons on 10 February 
2004.(1) It was referred to the Senate the same day.

The former Bill, C-17, in turn, had replaced Bill C-55,which died on the 
Order Paper when the first session of the 37th Parliament ended on 16 
September 2002.  Bill C-55, in turn, replaced Bill C-42, which was given 
first reading on 22 November 2001.  Bill C-42 received significant 
criticism, however, and the Government did not proceed with it. 
Significant differences between Bill C-7 and its predecessors will be noted 
in this document.  The Bill is one of three in the Government's legislative 
response to the events of 11 September 2001 in the United States.  Bill 
C-36, the Anti-terrorism Act, most provisions of which received royal 
assent on 18 December 2001, was the first.  On 28 November 2001, the House 
of Commons unanimously consented to a motion to delete from Bill C-42 
section 4.83 in clause 5 amending the Aeronautics Act.  The same day, that 
section was introduced as Bill C-44 in order to provide for speedier 
passage than consideration as part of Bill C-42 would have allowed for.  It 
received royal assent on 18 December 2001.

Bill C-7 amends 23 existing Acts, and enacts a new statute to implement the 
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, which entered into force on 26 
March 1975.

The purpose of this document is to provide a summary of the various aspects 
of the Bill.  In general, the statutes being amended will be discussed in 
the alphabetical order in which they appear in the Bill.  A number of 
statutes, however, are amended in a similar manner to provide for the 
making of interim orders if immediate action is required and these have 
been grouped together.  The two parts dealing with information sharing in 
relation to immigration matters are also discussed together.



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