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Do you support Bill C-51, which expands local police and intelligence agencies’ authority to prevent terrorism?

In January 2015, the Canadian government introduced Bill C-51 which would give police and spy agencies more power to detain terror suspects. Provisions to the bill include expanding police powers that would allow them to preventively detain or restrict terror suspects, ban the “promotion of terrorism”, allow the public safety minister to add people to Canada’s “no-fly list”, and enhance the powers of Canada’s spy agency CSIS. Proponents argue that law enforcement and intelligence agencies need more power to combat terrorism in the wake of the attacks on…  

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 @9L5NYBVLiberalfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, if a House of Commons committee is tasked with reviewing the decisions made by intelligence agencies in enforcing this act.

 @9D6R7J4from Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

cannot decide yet

 @9J7VZ3Zfrom Quebec  answered…1yr1Y

It would be a conditional yes for me but I would have to read the bill on how they define terrorism and if there are other things I object to that’s included in the bill like having a police state and the corruption that could ensue. So yes, but with conditions.

 @965CQK2from Quebec  answered…3yrs3Y

I do not have enough knowledge on the matter to decide either way

 @8YDGY87from Ontario  answered…3yrs3Y

This is hard to awnser but I ould say no because we have had seen bad things with police like with George Floyd and its tragic so just keep it at what it is.

 @8Y498MRfrom Quebec  answered…3yrs3Y

i don’t really know

 @8SF7HN3from Quebec  answered…4yrs4Y

No, the bill is too vague on the issues of scope, oversight, and accountability; and is a slippery slope towards a police state

 @9BZ8XQ8from Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

I agree but this needs to be closely monitored to prevent corruption so we do not end up being in a police state or in martial law.

 @9BH7XN4from Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, as long as its use is solely towards terrorism. any intel gained not relating to terrorism can’t be pursued.

 @98B6SV5from Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

Maybe, it depend if those organizations are able to not be corrupt. Just .0001% of corruption its too much.

 @8WFRGBHfrom Quebec  answered…4yrs4Y

More public participation

 @8VKNNBWfrom Quebec  answered…4yrs4Y

Only after thorough specialization of unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and discriminatory profiling be addressed

 @8VH2TZWConservativefrom Quebec  answered…4yrs4Y

No, the bill is too vague and lacks oversight and accountability. If these aspects could be improved on, it is something that I may reconsider.

 @8VFLJ7Nfrom Quebec  answered…4yrs4Y

This should not have happen if we did not get mass immigration

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