[Infowarrior] - Canada's 'Patriot' Act nears passage

[Richard Forno]

Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage
John Barber in Toronto
Tuesday 5 May 2015 06.30 EDT

Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is looking forward to an easy victory on Tuesday when the House of Commons votes in its final debate on the bill, known as C-51. But lingering public anger over the legislation suggests that his success in dividing his parliamentary opposition may well work against him when Canadians go to the polls for a national election this fall.

No legislation in memory has united such a diverse array of prominent opponents as the proposed legislation, which the conservative Globe and Mail newspaper denounced as a a plan to create a “secret police force”.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/canada-anti-terror-law-despite-widespread-protest

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