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Canadian Mounties Seize Firearms Following Flood #N3

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Canadian Mounties Seize Firearms Following Flood #N3

Canadian Mounties Override Civilian Rule to Arbitrarily Ban, Confiscate Firearms

RCMP turned thousands of law-abiding Canadian gun owners into criminals overnight

Adan Salazar
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March 5, 2014

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are acting on their own authority to arbitrarily re-classify, ban and ultimately confiscate certain rifles, contemptible actions for which Canadian citizens seemingly have no recourse.

Last Wednesday, the RCMP made good on its past threats and turned tens of thousands of Canadians into criminals overnight when they re-classified the Swiss Arms Classic Green carbine, a Swiss-made rifle featuring military-style characteristics, declaring it “prohibited” even though the model has been sold in Canada since 2000. Until Monday, the Canadian feds hadn’t even offered an amnesty period for gun owners to turn in their newly illegal weapons.

Although the high quality rifles cost anywhere from $ 3,000 to $ 4,000, the Canadian government has made no indication it intends to compensate, purchase or otherwise reimburse gun owners, or gun shops, for their surrendered firearms.

On Friday, after the country’s Public Safety Minister had publicly stated he would “take action” against the assault on law-abiding citizens’ rights, the Mounties again banned another gun, a Canadian version of the CZ 858, which had been specifically modified to meet domestic laws.

Troubling to many Canadians is the RCMP banned these guns without the authority of elected officials. “The elected government of the day had already made it clear it did not want to go this route. The Mounties did it anyway,” Sun News’s Brian Lilley reported.

“It is a dark day when police, not the people’s elected representatives, can suddenly transform thousands of ordinary, law-abiding Canadians into criminals with the stroke of a bureaucratic pen,” writes the Winnipeg Sun’s Lorne Gunter.

As Gunter explains, the High River gun grab of June 2013 set the precedent for mass gun confiscation. Mirroring scenes from the fallout of Hurricane Katrina, Mounties in the wake of a devastating flood “decided arbitrarily to break into the homes of nearly 2,000 law-abiding residents and strip the places of guns because they feared residents’ anger might be turned on police or politicians once the town’s forced evacuation was lifted.”

“The government needs to rein in the Mounties or they will find they’re no longer in control,” Lilly declares. “That means the government not only needs to override the decree from the Mounties, but strip them of any power they have or think they have to do this again.”

One gun shop owner expressed to CBC News that Mounties are disarming citizens to have a monopoly on force. “There is a movement within the RCMP and they don’t like to see guns in the hands of anybody but themselves.”

Canadian gun owners who refuse to relinquish their firearms can face jail time up to three years, Sun News reported.

Of course, the irony of the RCMP’s ban and confiscation is that they are targeting a gun the Swiss government actually entrusts its citizens to arm themselves with, illustrating the Mounties and Canadian government’s draconian disdain for its people’s rights.

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Biden Tries to Sign Canadian Woman Up for Obamacare

Vice President Joe Biden tried to convince a young Canadian woman to sign up for Obamacare:

“Vice President Biden moving in close to sell the Affordable Care Act to a young woman outside Butterfield’s Pancake House in Scottdale,” says the local reporter.

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Canadian immigration changes called unfair

Canada said its termination of two investor immigrant programs does not target China, but Chinese agencies said the policy change is unfair.

Analysts said the Canadian policy may herald a new era that wealthy applicants must improve their social integration in and increase financial contributions to destination countries.

“All of Canada’s immigration programs are open to anyone who meets the criteria, and do not target specific countries,” the Canadian embassy in China told China Daily.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada said in a written interview that China “has been among the top sources for more than a decade”, and immigration is a key part of Canada’s plan to “grow our economy, spur job creation, and ensure long-term prosperity for all Canadians”.

Controversy arose after the Canadian government announced plans last week to terminate the federal Immigrant Investor Program and Federal Entrepreneur Program.

The IIP requires investors to have a minimum net worth of 1.6 million Canadian dollars ($ 1.5 million) and to invest 800,000 Canadian dollars in the form of a multiyear, interest-free loan to the government.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada said: “Research shows that immigrant investors pay less in taxes than other economic immigrants, are less likely to stay in Canada over the medium- to long-term and often lack the skills, including official language proficiency, to integrate as well as other immigrants from the same countries.”

Liu Qinglong, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management, said the policy change illustrates Canada’s possible underestimation of decades of growing wealth in China and the consequent demand for migration.

“A low threshold brought unexpected investor immigrants, and consequently a range of issues,” Liu said.

Fiona Li, 30, a Chinese national working at an engineering business in Vancouver and a potential applicant for technology migration, said there is widespread discontent among residents about investor immigrants because of the latter’s inadequate contribution to communities.

“Many of them supported the policy change because they simply believe it is ‘totally unfair’ if the number of wealthy immigrants are not controlled. Some others insist that ‘money is not almighty, and a permanent residence should not be traded’,” Li said.

Frank Meng, who leads a consulting agency introducing investor immigrants to Canada, said it was not the first time Canada has raised immigration thresholds, and the programs’ termination, if passed by Canada’s Parliament, will disappoint the majority of the applicants

All 65,000 pending applications will reportedly be returned and paid fees refunded, and about 70 percent of the backlog came from Chinese applicants, the South China Morning Post reported.

“As far as I know, most of the applicants who submitted paperwork have waited for years — some even more than five years,” said Meng, president of Beijing Jiazhong Global Investment Consultation.

People may harbor doubts about the credibility of the government, he said.

China is the largest source of migrants in the world, and analysts said Chinese may alter their destinations given Canada’s policy changes.

Sun Zhe, director of the Center for US-China Relations at Tsinghua University, said: “Canada’s policy updates will hardly deter Chinese investor immigrants as a whole.”

North America and Europe will continue to have greater appeal to Chinese, and some may look to destinations including New Zealand and Singapore for lower tax rates, Sun said.

Wang Huiyao, director of the Center for China and Globalization, said some European countries may take the chance to offer lower thresholds to “attract wealthy Chinese who have impending needs for children’s education abroad or business expansion.”

It is also possible that some other destination countries may follow Canada to raise thresholds if its new immigrant programs prove a success,” Wang said.

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U.S. And Canadian Women"s Hockey Brings Plenty Of Heat To The Ice

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hide captionThe rival teams have already clashed during a Sochi Olympics preparation game last December. They will face each other in an early round game tomorrow.

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The rival teams have already clashed during a Sochi Olympics preparation game last December. They will face each other in an early round game tomorrow.

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Wednesday, the American women’s hockey team meets their arch rival Canada on the ice in Sochi at the Winter Olympics. It’s an early round game, but when it comes to these two teams, which are expected to meet in the gold medal game, there’s no such thing as a low-stakes match.

When they meet on the ice, things get heated: A match between the two teams in late December turned into a brawl. After the “melee,” the referees handed out 10 fighting majors and other infractions.

They also got into a fight in October, and those fights turned women’s hockey into a bit of an Internet sensation. Some fights went viral, but they’re not unusual, says Brianne Jenner, a Canadian forward.

“It’s not as rare as people think,” she says. “It’s just not always caught on video.”

“That’s just kind of what happens when you’re in an intense hockey game,” she says. “You know, it was just part of a hockey game and I think it’s good that… so many people are interested in it at least.”

These fights come up a lot, like probably in every single interview these women have done since arriving in Sochi. And the athletes seem conflicted: Yes, the fights happened; no, it’s not all that common. They are neither embarrassed nor proud. But, yes, it could happen again. Lyndsey Fry is an American forward.

“Pretty much everyone I’ve ever talked to that’s never seen a women’s game before, even in college, they’ll leave and be, like, so impressed,” Fry says. “It’s like, ‘Well, yeah, maybe you should have come out a little sooner.’

“There’s all the media coverage of the fight or whatever and it’s like, ‘That’s not really what women’s hockey is all about, but if it gets people watching, they’re going to fall in love with the sport.’”

‘One Of The Best Rivalries In Sport’

What is it about this rivalry that makes it so intense?

Two things: They play each other all the time; and when it comes to women’s hockey, America and Canada are in a league all their own. Both teams are coming into tomorrow’s game undefeated, and those games weren’t even close.

Take the one Monday between the U.S. and Switzerland. In a matter of 55 seconds, Team USA scored three goals — an American Olympic record. There were only eight seconds between the second goal and the third; the celebratory music hadn’t even stopped playing before they scored again.

Amanda Kessel scored two of the goals.

“When you score so many quickly, it just knocks the wind out of the other team,” she says.

Kessel, whose brother plays in the NHL, spoke after the game, which ended with a score of 9-0.

“It’s tough to get back up on your feet,” she says. “You just kind of keep pounding them and keep pounding them, and I think that’s what really did it to them.”

If history is any guide, the Canada game will be a whole lot closer, and when it comes to these two teams, there’s plenty of history. They met seven times in three months late last year. Jayna Hefford, who has played for Team Canada since the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, says it is one of the best rivalries in sport because the two teams push each other to get better.

“It’s intense, and it’s the games you want to play in as an athlete,” she says.”I think as a fan, those are the games that people love to watch, so it’s the best game to be in for sure.”

And a lot of people will be watching this time to see whether they throw off their gloves and fight again.

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Destruction of Canadian research libraries huge loss for science

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Title: Destruction of Canadian research libraries huge loss for science

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Year: 2014

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The Conservative government plans to close seven of the 11 fisheries science libraries by 2015. Researchers says that it’s not clear how much valuable research will be lost in the process. Burton Ayles is former DFO regional director and the former director of science for the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg. He speaks with Redeye host Mordecai Briemberg.

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Ted Cruz Giving Up Canadian Citizenship

(Newser) – Ted Cruz is still a Canadian but he promises he’s taking steps to change that, the Dallas Morning News finds. The Texas senator and rumored 2016 hopeful says he has hired lawyers to help him renounce the Canadian citizenship he gained when he was born in Alberta to a Cuban father and American mother. Cruz, who was 4 years old when his parents moved to the US, released his birth certificate earlier this year but explained that he thought he would have to take “affirmative steps” to have remained a Canadian citizen.

Cruz says the topic of his citizenship came up when he met with prominent “birther” Donald Trump last month, but “not in any significant respect.” Despite his birthplace, legal scholars agree that Cruz having been born to an American mother makes him a “natural born” American eligible for the presidency, the Guardian notes, but Cruz denies that renouncing the Maple Leaf has anything to do with designs on the White House. “My political perspective is focused on representing the state of Texas,” he says.

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Would You Like A Canadian Politician To Say Hi To You?

Yesterday, the Ottawa Citizen posted a link to a website that featured a scandal-tainted Canadian Senator named Mike Duffy doing a fundraising pitch. Given ongoing accusations that Duffy was misappropriating government funds, it was an interesting piece of web-arcana that the conservative party certainly wouldn’t want to draw attention to. But what made it amazing wasn’t the pitch.

Duffy had recorded hundreds of lead-ins to the video, each one with a different name, hoping to personalize it for as many people as possible. The Ottawa Citizen invited people to try the link and replace it with their own names, to see if he had one especially for you, Grace. Or you, Lorraine. Or you, Wendell. 

On its own, it was a fun distraction – seeing if Duffy had read your name, maybe tweeting it at friends. But a politico (and programmer) named Kevin O’Donnell turned a diversion into a bizarre work of art. He did some sleuthing and found that all the “name” videos were centrally located, and then ran those videos against a list he found online of 3,500 names. Doing this netted him 750 first names videos recorded by Mike Duffy, now divorced entirely from the fundraising pitch that followed.

O’Donnell created a website that serves all the “name” videos, so you can now send it to anyone who appears on the list, or just lose yourself in them as he hypnotically says hello to Floyd, Francine, Francis, Frank, Franklin, and so on.

The internet allows us to create quick-hit, time sensitive content that we can post online in an attempt to reach people quickly. It also allows that content to exist, relatively undisturbed for months or years after its sell-by date. But rediscovering and reusing that content can reveal a world of riches.

This happens all the time with stuff like Keyboard Cat, and the Space Jam website. Little pieces of ephemera that have long since been forgotten/abandoned by their creators, that take on a new life when they capture the internet’s attention. But Mike Duffy – man, this one’s inspired.

(h/t Steve Portigal)

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Good Grief… Government Awards Even MORE Contracts To Canadian Company That Produced HealthCare.Gov Disaster

A dog returns to its vomit.

Since the ObamaCare exchange website launched on Oct. 1, government officials have signed at least five different agreements with CGI totaling $ 7 million, according to USASpending.gov, a government website that lists government contracts. The contracts were for computer and software development at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Commerce, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

One contract, for instance, was signed Oct. 19 by Department of Commerce officials that gives CGI Federal $ 266,164 to provide “IT and Telecom Systems Development” for the Patent Office.

I want to say I’m surprised here, but honestly I’m now only surprised if/when government doesn’t make such awful, irresponsible decisions. This sort of madness is now very normal in American government.

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Surveillance a condition of Canadian wireless licence

Texts sent on a cellphone are subject to surveillance under Canadian law, but there must be a court warrant. (Reuters)

Wireless carriers in Canada, including those bidding on a block of prime spectrum tomorrow, must agree to allow police and Canadian securities agencies to monitor suspects through their networks as a condition of licence.

The first bids are due tomorrow on four blocks of Canadian spectrum that will help wireless carriers improve broadband access across the country.

Some Canadians hope that a fourth competitor emerges from the auction process to challenge the big three Canadian telecoms – Bell, Rogers and Telus. The results of the first round of bidding will be released Sept. 23.

• Spectrum auction aims to lower wireless costs


• Verizon pullback a blow to Canadian wireless consumers

There has been little scrutiny on the surveillance rules bidders must agree to.

As with past public spectrum auctions, each carrier must allow  “interception capabilities as authorized by law” as a condition of their access to bandwidth, according to rules outlined on the Industry Canada website. That rule has applied in every spectrum auction since 1996.

Edward Snowden revealed earlier this year that the U.S. National Securities Agency had a secret order permitting it to listen in on phone, wireless and internet communications involving millions of Americans. Vodafone, AT&T, Sprint and other big carriers admitted to co-operating with the NSA.

• NSA’s spying powers don’t mean encryption is obsolete: Dan Misener

But  the conditions imposed on Canadian carriers are narrower, as there must be a warrant for each instance in which law authorities listen in to Canadian wireless communications.

The rules are meant to compel the wireless carriers to help police pursue suspects by monitoring wireless conversations, reading SMS texts or tracking a users’ whereabouts.

The expectations are spelled out in a 1995 law called the Solicitor General’s enforcement Standards for Lawful Interception of Telecommunications, which specifies the need for a court-approved warrant. 

In 2005, the government drafted a bill that would have extended the same demand to internet service providers and other telecom-related services. That bill also would have eliminated the need for a warrant, but it died without being passed.

However, Public Safety Canada, which oversees surveillance, has said it wants to broaden the conditions that must apply for lawful interception.

For Canadian users, the greater threat to privacy is where their communications are routed over U.S. networks, as the NSA has carte blanche to listen in on any communications from foreign sources.

The auction of 700 megahertz spectrum could raise a lot of cash for the federal government.

These radio waves have the ability to allow cellphone signals to reach into elevators, deep into underground parking lots, traffic tunnels and basements where calls are often dropped. The signal can also travel greater distances and, in rural Canada, will require fewer cellphone towers to provide coverage. This new spectrum also will help meet consumers’ growing smartphone and tablet use. 

“This is really prime real estate and there is a limited amount,” said analyst Brahm Eiley of the Convergence Consulting Group. ”That’s why the price for this stuff is going to be very high.”

The last auction in 2008 raised $ 4.3 billion and brought new players Wind Mobile, Mobilicity, Public Mobile, Eastlink and Quebecor’s Videotron to the wireless market.

It is not known whether foreign wireless carriers will bid in tomorrow’s auction. Many Canadians were disappointed when U.S.-based Verizon opted to buy out its own stock and stated it had no interest in the Canadian market. 

IDC telecom analyst Lawrence Surtees thinks it’s unlikely that any other foreign bidders will decide to take on the Canadian market.

“I think a number of foreign players might look at the Verizon decision to think about testing the wireless market here and then balking as a signal that the Canadian market — it’s not that it’s saturated — but we have three big strong guys and whole bunch of newcomers,” he told CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange.

Surtees said he believes it is critical for Wind to pick up a large block of spectrum and become a national player. The startup company has a rough few years in the Canadian market and buying spectrum is critical for its long-term viability, he said.

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Surveillance a condition of Canadian wireless licence

Cruz On Canadian Citizenship: "Appropriate That I Only Be An American"

CANDY CROWLEY: I have to get this birth certificate off the table. I think it’s fairly cool that you had dual citizenship. You could go run for the Canadian parliament. You could go run for president. What’s wrong with that?

SEN. CRUZ: I think it’s the silly season in politics. I was born in 1970 in Calgary, Canada; my parents were working there in the oil and gas business. My mother was a U.S. citizen by birth born in Wilmington, Delaware, so under U.S. law, I’m an American citizen by birth. And when I was four, we moved back to Texas, so I grew up in Houston, Texas. It’s always been my home. And when I was a kid, my mom told me that if I ever wanted to, I could affirmatively choose to claim Canadian citizenship. But, I got a U.S. passport when I was in high school. I never did anything to affirmatively claim citizenship, so I thought that was the end of the matter. And then the Dallas Morning News ran a headline where they went and talked to some immigration lawyers, and said technically, the immigration lawyer said that I still had dual citizenship. So the question was raised, if you do, would you renounce your Canadian citizenship? I said, look, if that’s right, then sure. Because serving as a U.S. senator, I was an American by birth and serving as a U.S. Senator it’s only right that I be only an American.

CROWLEY: But you know how it’s being interpreted. Oh, clearing the way for a 2016 presidential run. We want to get this issue off the table.

CRUZ: Listen, there’s a lot of silliness. I thought it was a reasonable question when the Dallas Morning News asked for my birth certificate, so I gave it to them.

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Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Fri May 17, 2013 2:33pm EDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston.

Hadfield became a social media rock star with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and a continuous stream of commentary on Twitter about his life in orbit. But living without gravity for five months has left him feeling dizzy, weak and prematurely aged. A veteran of three space flights, he is wearing a pressure suit under his clothes to help his circulation as his body re-adapts to getting blood back to his brain.

“Without the constant pull-down of gravity, your body gets a whole new normal, and my body was quite happy living in space without gravity,” Hadfield, 53, said in a video conference call with Canadian reporters on Thursday, three days after returning to Earth.

The video conference was posted on the Canadian Space Agency’s UStream channel.

“Right after I landed I could feel the weight of my lips and tongue … I hadn’t realized that I had learned to talk with a weightless tongue,” he said.

He is suffering overall body soreness, particularly in his neck and back which are again having to support his head after months in weightlessness.

“It feels like I played full-contact hockey, but it’s getting better by the hour,” Hadfield said. “The subtle things and the big things are taking some re-adaptation to get used to and they are coming back one by one.”

Hadfield, who is the first from Canada to command a space station crew, NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko landed in Kazakhstan on Monday. He and Marshburn were then flown to Houston to begin rehabilitation.

As a departing finale Hadfield created a music video rendering of Bowie’s classic “Space Oddity,” which as of Friday had 13 million hits on YouTube.

Hadfield, who is the lead singer and bass guitarist in the all-astronaut rock band Max Q, said it is too early to think about what he will do next.

“For now, I’m still trying to stand up straight. I have to sit down in the shower so I don’t faint and fall down, and I don’t have calluses on the bottom of my feet yet, so I’m walking around like I walked on hot coals,” he said.

It usually takes about three weeks until a returning astronaut can return to driving, according to the Canadian Space Agency.

“We’re sort of tottering around like two old duffers in an old folks home,” Hadfield said, referring to his crew mate Marshburn.

Hadfield’s orbital odyssey ended with a parachute descent of their Soyuz space capsule onto the steppes of Kazakhstan.

“We hit the Earth just like a car crash, like we expected,” Hadfield said. “There was enough wind so that we rolled up on our side. I was the guy hanging from the ceiling.”

“Our first true sense of being home was a window full of the dirt of the Earth and the smell of spring and the growing grasses in Kazakhstan wafting in through the open hatch,” he said.

(Editing by David Adams and Jackie Frank)

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Court rejects release of spy records on iconic Canadian politician

March 29, 2013 by Joseph Fitsanakis

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Canada’s highest court has rejected a legal argument in favor of releasing surveillance records on Tommy Douglas, an iconic Canadian politician who was monitored for most of his life by the security services. Douglas was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who later became the leader of the New Democratic Party and Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Under his Premiership, which lasted from 1944 to 1961, Saskatchewan’s government became the first democratic socialist administration in North America and the first in the Americas to introduce a single-payer universal healthcare program. But Douglas, who is widely recognized as the father of Canada’s healthcare system, was under constant surveillance by Canadian intelligence throughout most of his life. Government records show that the now-defunct Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) began monitoring the socialist politician shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It appears that, in the political context of the Cold War, Douglas had drawn the attention of Canada’s security establishment by supporting antiwar causes, which led some to suspect him of holding pro-communist sympathies. The government surveillance, which was at times extensive, lasted until shortly before the politician’s death in 1986. Under Canada’s legal system, security dossiers on individuals are typically released 20 years after the target’s death. However, even though several hundred pages from Douglas’ dossier have already been released, many hundreds more remain secret. In 2005, Canadian Press reporter Jim Bronskill launched a legal campaign aimed at securing the release of the remaining pages in Douglas’ dossier. His campaign is supported by Douglas’ family, notably Douglas’ daughter, Shirley. But the Canadian government has resisted Bronskill’s effort from the very beginning. In 2010, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which inherited Douglas’ dossier after the RCMP’s Security Service was dissolved, filed an affidavit cautioning against the release of the secret pages. In the affidavit, the CSIS said that the release of the files on Douglas would “cause damage [despite] the passing of time and the age of the information”. It went on to add that “sources may still be active” and “some of the investigations are entities that [will] remain of interest for many decades”. On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed with the CSIS and ruled that the remaining pages in Douglas’ dossier would stay secret for the foreseeable future. The court refused to elaborate on the reasons for the ruling, but it is assumed it agreed with the position of the Canadian government. The latter argued that divulging Cold War-era techniques would imperil current intelligence work, including “covert investigations against terrorists”. Furthermore, the government claimed that the remaining pages in Douglas’ dossier contain “no issue of public importance”.

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Court rejects release of spy records on iconic Canadian politician