Canada announced a new anti-terror law that will allow
anyone suspected of being involved in a terror plot to be detained
without charge for up to seven days.
The law
announced Friday Jan 30,2015 will also make it a crime for people to call for a
terrorist attack, even if they don’t make a specific threat, and empower
Canada’s spy agency to thwart attacks directly in a significant
expansion of their powers.
Work on the law began in
October after a gunman killed a soldier at Canada’s national war
memorial and then stormed Parliament. The attack in Ottawa came two days
after a man, said to be inspired by the Islamic State group, ran over
two soldiers in a parking lot in Quebec, killing one and injuring the
other before being shot to death.
The new law still
has to be passed in Parliament but Harper’s Conservative government has a
majority of the seats so passage is all but ensured.
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