Canada’s Bill C-51 and The Right To Privacy
- April 16, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
In my post titled Privacy and Personal Autonomy dated January 2, 2015, I agreed with Professor Stephen J. Schulhofer in More Essential Than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-first Century (2012) that the ability of the individual to flourish…
Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill Is Destined for the Courts
- April 2, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
In my last post titled Informal Coalition Opposes Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill dated March 22, 2015, I reviewed the criticism of the government’s position on Bill C-51 and the attendant decline in public support. I will focus here on two aspects…
Informal Coalition Opposes Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill
- March 22, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
In my post dated March 16, 2015, titled Canada’s Bill C-51: Therrien v. Harper, I concluded with the CBC News report dated March 12, 2015, by Kady O’Malley that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Daniel Therrien, was blocked by the…
Canada’s Bill C-51: Therrien v. Harper
- March 16, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On March 5, 2015, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Daniel Therrien, released his office’s Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security of the House of Commons. The submission focused on the new Security of Canada Information Sharing…
Canada’s Bill C-51: An Attack on the Rule of Law
- March 2, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
In my post titled Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill Fails Accountability Test dated February 22, 2015, I closed with the report in The Globe and Mail of February 20, 2015, that the Prime Minister sees no need for more oversight of the new…