National, 12 January 2007. News Release

The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced an investment of $431.6M over five years to reinforce smart, secure borders. This funding will allow three key initiatives under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) – eManifest, Business Resumption and Partners in Protection – to move forward. 

“Canada’s New Government is taking action to keep Canadians safe from potential security and health threats, while ensuring the smooth flow of trade across our borders,” said Minister Day. ” This significant investment is testimony that our government is moving forward and working with the business community on key programs to increase security and support economic prosperity.”

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OUR COMMUNITY : OUR WAY : OUR VOICE ! **Rally in opposition to SHAM community consultation**

They want to claim “ethnic” support for their ‘National Security’ strategy? Let’s tell CSIS, the RCMP and CBSA loud and clear what our communities think about their campaign of humiliation, dehumanization and fear- in our own way and with our own voices! We don’t need an invitation to say “Not one more detention! Not one more secret trial! No to border militarization and racist criminalization!”

A RALLY & “PEOPLES’ CONSULTATION”
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26th 3 P.M.
Westin Bayshore Hotel 1601 Bayshore Drive

Please bring your placards, banners and especially anything that will make a lot of noise!

Background Information:

In order to put forward the image of a “culturally sensitive” approach and a “democratic framework”, the Canadian Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security Secretariat has set up a supposed community consultation on issues of National Security. A COMMUNITY CONSULTATION THAT OUR COMMUNITIES WERE NEVER INVITED TO!

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Canada Kept List of Dissidents to Lock Up in Time of Crisis. Historian uncovers plan to detain as many as 2,500 in camps. BY DAVID PUGLIESE; November 6, 2006 – OTTAWA CITIZEN

The federal government had detailed lists of political activists and subversives it planned to arrest in the aftermath of a nuclear war or other national emergency, keeping such plans on the books until at least the early 1980s, according to records obtained by an Ottawa historian. Anywhere from 700 to 2,500 people, including babies, would have been held in internment camps, including one in Gatineau Park, before being shipped off to more permanent detention facilities.

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The Horrors of ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ By Maher Arar

Editors Note: Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who is barred from entering the United States, delivered his acceptance speech for the Letelier-Moffitt International Human Rights Award in a pre-recorded videotape. This is a transcript of his speech, which was viewed at the award ceremony hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies on Oct. 18, 2006 in Washington, DC.

Hello my name is Maher Arar. Sorry I could not join you for today’s ceremony. All Center for Constitutional Rights Staff and I are humbled to have been chosen this year’s recipient for the Letelier-Moffitt International Human Rights Award. This award means a tremendous amount to us. It means that there are still Americans out there who value our struggle for justice. It means that there are Americans out there who are truly concerned about the future of America. We now know that my story is not a unique one. Over the past two years we have heard from many other people who were, who have been kidnapped, unlawfully detained, tortured and eventually released without being charged with any crime in any country.

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Judge Strikes Down Part of Anti-Terrorism Act

A superior court judge has struck down a portion of the Anti-Terrorism Act which defines terrorism, saying it’s in violation of the Charter of Rights. The ruling hands a partial victory to accused terror suspect Mohammed Momin Khawaja, and deals another blow to anti-terror legislation rushed into law after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York. Last week, a judge found secrecy provisions contained in the act were unconstitutional in the case of Ottawa journalist Juliet O’Neill.

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