Legislation
Legislation
TSAS WP16-13: Trying to Talk to Terrorists: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Canada
Scholars have long shied away from talking to terrorists. This is because there are significant methodological and ethical problems posed by such research. How can we manage those challenges and – …
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 – …
The Surveillance Of Social Networking And The Social Value Of Privacy
This chapter argues that theories about privacy would benefit from embracing deliberative democratic theory on the grounds that it addresses harms to democracy, and widens our understandings of privacy infringements – …
Go With The Flow: The (Im)Plausibility of a Grand Canadian Intergovernmental Bargain on Energy Policy and Strategy
Law, Logarithms and Liberties: Legal Issues Arising from CSE’s Metadata Program
Canada’s National Counterterrorism Strategy and Challenges of Community Based Intervention in Countering Radicalization: A Perspective.
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 WP16-02: Impromptu Initiative: Security Certificates and Scale
This paper offers some background and theoretical framing as part of a larger project on the Canadian Security Certificate Initiative. Here I consider questions about different ways of thinking about – …
Evidenced-based criminal justice policy for Canada: An exploratory study of public opinion and the perspective of mental health and legal professionals
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 – …
TSAS WP14-04: Eco-Terrorism and the Corresponding Legislative Efforts to Intervene and Prevent Future Attacks
This study reviews the extent of attacks related to eco-terrorism from 1970 to 2012 to understand the development of this relatively new phenomenon in Canada, Japan and the United States. – …
The Human Rights of Anti-terrorism
The Ottawa Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human Rights
In June 2006, experts on human rights and terrorism met in their individual capacities at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada to develop the following Principles on – …
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).
Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act (S.C. 2001, c. 41), Bill C-36
TSAS WP13-02: Le projet de loi antiterroriste canadien: une sélection sécuritaire
Comment les parlementaires canadiens ont-ils défini le problème du terrorisme dans le cadre des débats sur le projet de loi antiterroriste canadien (C-36), qui ont eu lieu du 15 octobre – …