About time!!! Conservatives weigh new powers for police after Ottawa shooting http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...police-after-ottawa-shooting/article21296410/ The Conservative government is vowing to move quickly on two fronts to strengthen the powers of Canada’s spy agency and police forces in the wake of the killings of two soldiers this week – including a contentious measure to alter the threshold for preventative arrest. New legislation giving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) the ability to better hide the identities of its informants and allow Canada to share more intelligence information with its allies is to be tabled in the House of Commons as early as Monday or Tuesday, according to a senior government source. In addition, Justice Minister Peter MacKay told The Globe and Mail on Friday that, in co-operation with other departments and agencies, he is “exploring a broad array of options, including legislative and preventative” to help better protect Canadians. Measures now under consideration include changing the so-called threshold for preventative arrests and more closely tracking and monitoring people who may pose a threat, such as requiring them to check in with an officer regularly even without any charges against them. Being looked at, too, is potential legislation that would make it a crime to support terrorists’ acts online, says a senior government source. Mr. MacKay wrote in an e-mail that new measures “will build on our record of better equipping our security forces and law enforcement with the critical tools they need to intercept and disrupt threats and ultimately convict and incarcerate those who pose a danger to Canadian families and communities.” (More at above url)
When you state your reason for wanting to be able to carry a concealed weapon, I wonder if it will be generally accepted to say, "to defend against the possibility of random Islamic jihadist attack"?
Online hate speech could be curtailed under new anti-terror push Move to target online postings could raise ire of free-speech advocates http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/onl...-under-new-anti-terror-push-1.2811878?cmp=rss In the wake of this week's attacks in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., and Ottawa, the Conservative government is looking at bringing in new laws to crack down on pro-ISIS sentiments like those posted to Quebec assailant Martin Couture-Rouleau's Facebook page, CBC News has learned. The move to tighten Canada's Criminal Code is expected to come as part of a sweeping overhaul of Canada's national security regime. (More at above url) Looks like Canada is finally waking up to the mgnitude of the radicalization threat they are facing.