Canada's Creeping Police State
Capitalist Repression and War
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1067/canada.html
Date Written: 2015-05-01
Publisher: Workers Vanguard
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX17734
The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
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