Original author: Janice Tibbetts
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Date: November 15, 2004
Lawmakers to decide if 'draconian' law should be altered or even scrapped
Parliament will embark within weeks on an expansive review of Canada's anti-terrorism laws to examine whether extra powers given to police and government in the emotional months after the 2001 U.S. terror attacks should be softened or scrapped.
The anti-terrorism bill, introduced when the World Trade Center rubble had barely stopped smouldering, was one of the fastest pieces of legislation ever passed by the government of former prime minister Jean Chretien, despite being a lengthy 171 pages long and containing 146 provisions.
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