“Living document” repository of special legal measures introduced in Canada in response to COVID-19
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One of the key themes in the mandate letter to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General is digital issues: combating online hate, harassment and extremism; enhancing the powers of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) and advancing the Digital Charter, which the Government rolled out in May 2019.
Read MoreWhite nationalist captured, Canada reacts to the death of 57 of its citizens when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shoots down a Ukrainian civilian airliner.
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I introduced the Liberal Government’s release of its Mandate Letters and covered the “terrorism related priorities” included in the Minister of Justice and Attorney General’s Mandate Letter in a previous post (Part I of Justice is Service). In this brief post, I wanted to cover three additional priorities included in the Honourable David Lametti’s Letter, each of which might be defined as national security-adjacent criminal justice priorities. They are explained below, with the bullets indicating the relevant Mandate Letter’s priorities.
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Intrepid Blog will be releasing a series of posts on the Mandate Letters over the next two weeks, starting today with the Minister of Justice and Attorney General’s Mandate Letter. The Honourable David Lametti’s Letter is a broad one; it includes twenty-one bulleted “deliverables” that the Minister is expected to work on as top priorities, though the Minister is also “encouraged…to identify additional priorities”.
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Over the last week Intrepid Podcast contributors have been involved in providing commentary about the aftermath of the killing of General Soleimani in Iraq by the Trump Administration. We’ve collected some of the segments for our readers who may be interested.
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It is widely expected that Iran will retaliate for the killing of General Soleimani by the United States, although it is not clear how just yet. Jessica Davis looks at how the activities of Iranian-backed entities (particularly by Hizballah) in Canada might figure in to such a response and the challenge that poses for Canadian national security agencies.
Read MoreHannah Diegle highlights the past two weeks in Canadian national security news.
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