DEFENCE OF CANADIAN LIBERTY COMMITTEE

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• Forced vaccinations coming to Canada: MP Speaks Out Against Bill C-42
  A rare breed: Bloc Quebecois MP Mario Laframboise in the House of Commons December 3, 2001 speaks out against the Orwellian powers of forced vaccination coming to Canada via Bill 42. [read more]

• Open letter on Bill C 36 from a large group of Muslim Canadian organizations. [read]

• Lawyer details the new criminal justice system of the U.S.A
  by Michael Ratner, 21 Nov 2001
  I live a few blocks from the World Trade Center. In New York, we are still mourning the loss of so many after the attacks on our city. We want to arrest and punish the terrorists, eliminate the terrorist network and prevent future attacks. But the government's declared war on terrorism, and many of the anti-terrorism measures, include a curtailment of freedom and constitutional rights that have many of us very worried. [read more]

• Bills C35 and C36 Acts of Treason
  By now everyone has probably heard about the new 'Anti-terrorism' Bill C-36. Few people, however, have heard of the companion Bill C-35. Bill C-35 grants "immunity from legal process of every kind" to "representatives of a foreign state that is a member of or participates in an international organization" "while excercising their functions and during the journey to and from the place of meeting". This sounds like the language of 'diplomatic immunity' but what is key to both Bills C-35 and C-36 is Bill C-35's redefinition of what constitutes an 'international organization'. [read more]

• The Dogs of Democracy
  by Krystalline Kraus November 21, 2001
  Several times at Saturday's demonstration, protesters approached the police barricades set up to protect G20, International Monetary Fund and World Bank delegates. They were greeted by rubber bullets, pepper spray and teargas. But, according to some demonstrators, they were most frightened by the police dogs. [read more]

• BURN THIS BILL
  by MICHAEL VALPY
  Justice Minister Anne McLellan's claim in a letter this week to The Globe and Mail that her antiterrorism bill does not strip Canadians of their civil liberties is ridiculous. Reid Morden, the former chief of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, says the agency doesn't need the legal powers McLellan proposes to give it, merely more human resources. [read more]

• The Federation of Law Societies and the Law Society of BC took no time in attacking the new Federal law requiring lawyers to snitch on their clients.
  November 9, 2001
  Ottawa approach akin to Nazis, judge charges Money laundering bill Mark Hume - National Post ( The BCSC granted an injunction relieving BC lawyers from snitching until the matter could be fully heard.) [read more]

• GLOBALIZATION: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RULE OF LAW
  by Connie Fogal, Nov 21, 2001
  The anti- terrorism bills currently in process or already passed by various western former "democracies", including the US, Britain, Australia, Canada demonstrates are about the completion of globalization (read corporatization, read fascism), not the elimination of terrorism. ...The WTO commands are that there will be a liberalization and harmonization of domestic laws to accommodate the WTO agenda. [read more]

• Canada's anti-terrorism proposed law Bill C36 - the entire draft terms [read more]

• Bill C-35: Granting Diplomatic Immunity to State Terrorists
  By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade.
  Bill C 35 will extend diplomatic immunity to include foreign officials in Canada, even if they are known criminals or terrorists. It will thwart protests against foreign government officials .By protecting foreign government representatives from prosecution under Canadian laws, Bill C-35 directly contradicts the so-called anti-terrorist Bill C-36. [read more]

• Senate Report on Canada's proposed ant-terrorism law Bill C36 November 1,2001.
  ( Special thanks to the NDP caucus for providing this information) [read]

• Rocco Galati's submissions on behalf of the Canadian Islamic Congress along with evidence by others presented to the Justice Committee November 6,2001 re Canada's proposed ant-terrorism law Bill C36.
  ( Special thanks to the NDP caucus for providing this information) [read]

• LIBERTY V.S. SECURITY
  written by Connie Fogal, Director, Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee,
  Canada's proposed antiterrorism law, Bill C 36, is an exploitive disguise to deliver us over to undemocratic globalization. It is a sword joining the USA, Australia and England slashing freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, and the right to protest in order to eliminate the increasingly effective international democratic opposition to global corporatization. [read more]

• SUBMISSIONS OF CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS ("CIC") TO PROPOSED BILL-16, "The Charities Registration (Security Information) Act"
  by Rocco Galati, B.A., LL.B, LL.M
  The CIC condemns all acts of any violence, in Canada and abroad, by an armed person or group against a civilian population, group, or persons, for political, economic, racial, or social reasons, which is what the CIC understands to be "terrorism", including state terrorism. [read more]

• INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE ILLEGALITY OF THE WAR ON AFGHANISTAN
  by Gail Davidson, lawyer
  The war against Afghanistan is illegal. The US, assisted by Canada and Britain is bombing Afghanistan and will perhaps use additional force with ground troops for the stated purpose of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden and others associated with his organization and of toppling the Taliban government.
  No international or national law or policy legalizes these attacks on Afghanistan. No resolutions of the United Nations' Security Council or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization could provide a legal justification for these attacks and none do. [read more]

• SAY WHAT YOU WANT, BUT THIS WAR IS ILLEGAL
  by Michael Mandel
  The Security Council has already passed two resolutions condemning the Sept. 11 attacks and announcing a host of measures aimed at combating terrorism. These include measures for the legal suppression of terrorism and its financing, and for co-operation between states in security, intelligence, criminal investigations and proceedings relating to terrorism. [read more]

• EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT OF A MEDIC REGARDING POLICE ABUSE OF CITIZENS AT SUMMIT
  by Sara Ahronheim
  "As we walked back into the chaos, we came upon a girl who had been hit by a canister of gas, which exploded all over her body. Medics were treating her by stripping off her clothing and pouring liquids all over her. The poor girl was crying and screaming, in so much pain. Around us were clouds and clouds of gas, and cops advancing on all sides." [read more]