Anti-terrorism legislation review begins
The controversial anti-terrorism bill has now gone through one week of committee review. Has the government showed signs that amendments are possible? Legal scholars Craig Forcese and Kent Roach join us with their take on week one.
The first week of testimonies at the committee looking into the controversial anti-terrorism bill is now in the books. Despite the growing list of red flags being raised by critics, the government appears unwilling to entertain changes to Bill C-51.
To help review what happened this week, we invited two of the people who appeared. Craig Forcese is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and Kent Roach is a professor of Law at the University of Toronto who specializes in constitutional and terrorism law.
They've been posting detailed legal analyses of Bill C-51 at www.antiterrorlaw.ca .