Original author: Andrew Mayeda
Source: The National Post
URL: [link]
Date: October 18, 2006
OTAWA - A Commons panel that has been reviewing the Anti-Terrorism Act plans to recommend the extension for five years of two controversial provisions that give Canadian authorities broad powers in detaining terror suspects and questioning witnesses, CanWest News Service has learned.
The federal act, passed in 2001 in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, added two provisions to the Criminal Code. One enables the police to arrest suspects without warrant if authorities have reason to believe a terrorist act will be committed; the other allows judges to compel individuals to testify at "investigative hearings." Both provisions were due to expire early in the new year.
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