Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws

Coryoth writes "The Canadian parliament has voted against renewing anti-terror laws that had been introduced after September 11, 2001. The rejected laws included provisions to hold terror suspects indefinitely, and to compel witnesses to testify, and were in some sense Canada's version fo the Patriot Act. The laws were voted down in the face of claims from the minority Conservative government that the Liberal Party was soft on terror, and despite the fact that Canada has faced active terrorist cells in their own country. The anti-terror laws have never been used, and it was viewed that they are neither relevant, nor needed, in dealing with terrorist plots. Hopefully more countries will come to the same conclusion."

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Re:Wow policies that dont work get revoked.

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http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ss f?/base/news/117232538430570.xml&coll=2
The court called this a fundamental violation of their human rights.
"The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is this: Before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in a ruling for all nine justices.
"The secrecy required by the scheme denies the person named in a certificate the opportunity to know the case put against him or her, and hence to challenge the government's case," she said.

wtf?
Going out on a limb here but,

If the laws were never used, then the case would not have reached the justices to be ruled upon in the first place. In this case the five Muslim men held without being allowed the right to mount a defense to the charges, that doesn't work for me. I have the right to be counted as innocent until you prove, in a court of law no less, the fact "I" did willing and with malice violate the law in question. No matter what evidence you have, video, ploaroid, signed confession, I nor YOU are guilty until proven so.

Yea I stand behind the description, "DON'T WORK".

Re:Wow policies that dont work get revoked.

[Shads]

The policies in the US are more detrimental to the citizens than what they may or may not prevent.

The fact is... since the laws enactment dozen of times people have demonstrated time and time again how they're completely non-effective.

Bravo for Canada... they're becoming like the us... only with considerably more sanity.

Boston is a good example of exactly what is wrong with the US... blowing up a lite brite... blowing up a traffic counter... etc. The people running the country are running amok and getting out of hand.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin, An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania.