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 MoreI 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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