OTTAWA—There’s considerable anxiety within Canada’s intelligence community that the Senate is running out of time to pass the Liberal government’s national security reforms, the Star has learned. The Senate’s national security committee has yet to schedule their study into Bill C-59, which has been before Parliament for almost two years. The reform package is seen as the most significant change to Canada’s national security regime since at least 2001. Article Continued BelowC-59 was billed as a direct response to the previous Conservative government’s 2015 national security reforms, Bill C-51, which gave the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) controversial abilities to “disrupt” threats to national security. “There’s absolutely a huge amount of anxiety (C-59 won’t pass Parliament),” said University of Ottawa professor Craig Forcese, a close observer of Canada’s national security regime.

Source: thestar February 26, 2019 17:48 UTC