Original author: Thomas Walkom
Source: The Toronto star
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Date: October 24, 2006
We are casual about our liberties in Canada. Five years ago, Parliament rammed through new anti-terror laws that gave the state unprecedented powers to jail individuals without charging them or convicting them of any crime.
Now it looks as if the country's elected politicians are preparing to extend these remarkably draconian provisions for at least five more years.
Why? They don't say.
"They" are the Liberal and Conservative MPs who make up the majority on a Commons subcommittee looking into the anti-terror laws. Yesterday, they issued a report recommending that Parliament extend until 2011 the most controversial element of these laws — a provision for preventive detention.
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