Testimony: Professor Leah West on Bill C-59 in Senate

Cyber, International Law, LawLeah WestApril 29, 2019Bill C-59, CSE, Active Cyber, Defensive Cyber, International Law

Criminalizing Terrorist Babble: The Debate

Part of the focus during senate hearings on bill C-59 has been on the speech crime created by bill C-51 in 2015. Debate centers on whether the roll-back of this crime in C-59 is a good thing or not. This post provides an overview of the issues, and a discussion of alternatives.

toppostCraig ForceseApril 29, 2019Free expression, Criminal law, Terrorism offences, Bill C-59

CSE’s International Law Headache

Bill C-59 will give the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) several new mandates, including the authority to engage in “active cyber” operations. This blog post briefly describes this mandate and addresses an area of uncertainty: how will the government square the use of offensive cyber capabilities with Canada’s international law obligations?

toppostCraig Forcese and Leah WestApril 27, 2019CSE, Active Cyber, Bill C-59

Squaring the Constitutional Circle with CSIS Datasets

Bill C-59 creates a new “dataset” collection, retention and use system for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). It is a complicated system, responding to a series of hard policy dilemmas.

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