Dear chapter activists, The Canadian Press is reporting today that, "Former public safety minister Anne McLellan, former finance minister John Manley and former justice minister Irwin Cotler said the (C-36) measures (of "preventive arrest" and "investigative hearings")...should not be allowed to lapse as Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has suggested." The news story also notes, "The measures have a built-in sunset clause that requires Parliament to review and extend them every three years. Their new expiry date is March 1." Originally the vote in the House of Commons on these two provisions was to have taken place on Tuesday February 13 because the provisions were set to expire on Friday February 16. It now appears that the vote will take place sometime within the next two weeks given, for technical reasons, a new expiry date of Thursday March 1.

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