Jake Norris rounds up the top Canadian National Security stories from the first half of October.
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This week, Hussein Borhot was charged with terrorism offences for allegedly travelling to Syria in 2013. He has been charged with four offences, with the kidnapping offence being a first in Canadian history. These charges demonstrate that the RCMP is willing and able to press forward with charges based on events that largely transpired overseas and even after nearly a decade has elapsed. Foreign fighters should take note.
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In the second post in our student series, JD/MA student Gabriella Colavecchio unpacks the implications of an impending constitutional challenge to the use of secret evidence to deny a Canadian with alleged connections to Al Shabaab a passport under the Canadian Passport Order and the Prevention of Terrorist Travel Act.
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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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This week the Attorney General of New Zealand introduced new and novel legislation authorizing the imposition of Terrorism Suppression Control Orders on foreign terrorist travellers, returnees, individuals convicted of terrorism in foreign jurisdictions, and those who have been subject to immigration or citizenship consequences for security reasons connected to terrorism.
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