Stumbling Toward Total Information Awareness: The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act
Terrorist Babble and the Limits of Law: Assessing a Prospective Canadian Terrorism Glorification Offence
Legislating in Fearful and Politicized Times: The Limits of Bill C-51’s Disruption Powers in Making us Safer
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. In – …
TSAS WP16-04: Bridging the National Security Accountability Gap: A Three-Part System to Modernize Canada’s Inadequate Review of National Security
This paper examines existing challenges associated with the current structure of national security accountability review in Canada. It then draws on best practices in other jurisdictions to propose a systematic – …
TSAS WP15-02: Terrorist Babble and the Limits of the Law: Assessing a Prospective Canadian Terrorism Glorification Offence
Since 2007, the Canadian government has repeatedly expressed interest in a terrorism “glorification” offence, responding to internet materials regarded by officials as terrorist propaganda and as promoting “radicalization”. In the – …
When Secret Intelligence Becomes Evidence: Some Implications of Khadr and Charkaoui II
Khadr and Charkaoui II highlighted that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (“CSIS”) has constitutional and statutory obligations to retain and disclose secret intelligence. (Source: Publication).
The Unique Challenges of Terrorism Prosecutions: Towards a Workable Relation between Intelligence and Evidence
The focus in this study isle on the unique challenges presented by terrorism prosecutions especially those relating to the disclosure of otherwise secret intelligence. (Source: Publication).