Original author: Richard Foot and Juliet O'Neill
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Date October 23, 2007


The Conservative government continued to roll out its crime and security agenda Tuesday, tabling legislation to resurrect a controversial pair of counter-terrorism measures that Parliament had allowed to expire earlier this year.

The two measures, known as investigative hearings and preventive arrests, give authorities exceptional powers to force people to testify in secret hearings, and to arrest and temporarily detain terrorist suspects without warrants.

"These tools were enacted to help prevent terrorist activities from being carried out and to assist in investigating terrorism offences," a statement from the Department of Justice said.

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