The government's proposed anti-terror legislation would be stripped of "dangerous" provisions to increase the power and scope of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service under the amendments unveiled by the New Democrats on Friday.
The amendments — which were presented by NDP public safety critics Randall Garrison and Rosane Doré Lefebvre, would "delete the most dangerous provisions … and address shortcomings in the legislation," they say.
The committee is scheduled to begin clause-by-clause review of the bill next week.
Earlier this week, New Democratic Party house leader Peter Julian served notice that the NDP may attempt to seek approval of the House to expand the bill, which would be necessary to make any substantive changes to the text.
Liberal public safety critic Wayne Easter and rights and freedoms critic Irwin Cotler released their party's proposed amendments on Thursday.
Liberals to propose more oversight
Among their key recommendations:
- Increased oversight, including setting up a joint parliamentary committee to monitor the activities of Canadian intelligence agencies, including CSIS and CSEC.
- Explicitly exempting "advocacy, protest, dissent and artistic expression" from being targeted under the new provisions.
- Limiting the power of CSIS to request judicial authorization for measures that could contravene Charter rights.
- Sunset clauses that would automatically repeal several provisions of the bill unless renewed after three years, which would also be the timeline for a mandatory statutory review of the legislation as a whole.
"We bring these amendments forward in good faith to improve the bill and to find the balance between national securities, civil liberties and freedom of expression," Easter told reporters.
"If the government is not willing to allow Parliament to work as it should, then we will be placing these amendments in our election platform this fall."
Cotler pointed out that in 2001, he publicly questioned elements of the post-9/11 anti-terror bill put forward by his own party, which was in government at the time.
"I rose in the House on Oct. 16 — and I know Hansard is not a bestseller, but you can find it there, and I said I had 10 civil libertarian objections to my government's own legislation at the time," he recalled.
Broadbent slams Liberal position
"I mention that, because it shows the robust debate within the government, leaving aside what the opposition may have recommended."
The government has not yet indicated whether it will support — or propose — any changes to the bill.
The Liberals voted to support the bill at second reading, and are expected to do the same when it goes to a final vote next month — with or without amendment.
That's drawn the ire of the New Democrats, most recently the party's former leader, Ed Broadbent.
Speaking at the Progress Summit in Ottawa on Friday morning, he recalled that he had "worked hard with Pierre Trudeau between 1980 and 1982 to create what is possibly the best Charter of Rights in the world."
"I never thought I'd see the day his party would back away from its defence," he said.
"C-51 is flawed. C-51 is dangerous. C-51 must be defeated by Parliament."
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