Join us for the virtual launch of ICLMG’s latest report:

“The Damage of De-risking: How Canada’s Policies to Counter Terrorism Financing Drive Financial Exclusion”

ICLMG’s National Coordinator and report author, Tim McSorley, in conversation with former Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 7 PM ET, online on zoom

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A humanitarian organization providing aid to civilians in Syria and other populations in crisis is suddenly told that their online donation processor would be shutting their account in 30 days, with no explanation. An organization engaging in education and advocacy for solidarity with Palestine has its bank account suddenly shuttered; not long after, one of the organization’s directors and 13 members of their family also have their accounts shut. All with no explanation and no recourse.

This is the reality of de-risking: the practice whereby financial institutions terminate or restrict access to financial services for certain clients or sectors to avoid perceived regulatory, compliance, or reputational risk, rather than managing that risk through proportionate, individualized and evidence-based mitigation measures. This has resulted in unjustified and discriminatory decisions that significantly impact both individual and organizational clients, including non-profits and charities.

Our report shows that the de-risking of non-profit organizations in Canada, particularly those that are active in Muslim communities or carrying out humanitarian activities abroad, is not a series of isolated commercial decisions made by individual banks, but a predictable structural outcome of Canada’s anti-terrorist financing framework.

During the webinar, we will present our analysis of Canada’s anti-terrorist financing ecosystem and its impacts, share case studies from individuals and organizations who have been impacted by de-risking, and outline our recommendations to remedy the situation.

Speakers:

Tim McSorley is the National Coordinator of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. He joined the coalition in 2016. In 2021, he authored the report The CRA’s Prejudiced Audits: Counter-Terrorism and the Targeting of Muslim Charities in Canada, a precursor to this new report.

Amira Elghawaby is a journalist, human rights advocate, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Muslim Communities Research Observatory. She served as the first ever federal Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia from 2023 to 2026.

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Far from being a thing of the past, the war on terror has intensified over the years. It continues to fuel a power dynamic that erodes civil liberties in Canada, in the name of national security. Faced with this, the mobilizations of recent months, triggered by a flurry of bills proposed by the federal government, must intensify and rely on the strength of multi-sectoral coalitions.

by Tim McSorley (he), National Coordinator, ICLMG

and Xan Dagenais (they), Communications and Research Coordinator, ICLMG

This article first appeared in French in the 2026 Spring/Summer issue of Droits et libertés

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Following the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, a wave of repression and curtailment of rights swept not just the US, but Canada as well. Authorities used this crisis and people’s fears to urgently pass laws that expanded surveillance, eroded due process and fair trial guarantees, and limited freedom of expression, shrinking civic space overall. Muslim and racialized communities were disproportionally impacted, facing a surge of racism and xenophobia. In Canada, the rushed passage of the Anti-terrorism Act of 2001 resulted in the targeting of peaceful activists, a chilling effect on international development NGOs and humanitarian assistance, and an increase in religious, racial and political profiling. Alarmed by this rapid erosion and wanting to protect civil liberties, a group of organizations came together to create the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG). While the War on Terror is often viewed as a thing of the past, it was consistently built on over the years, culminating in what we see today. Around the world, repression of protest and free expression, tightening of borders, illegal military interventions in the name of fighting terrorism – such as the genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran, spilling into Lebanon – are on the rise.

It is easy to feel that Canada may have avoided the worst of this: In May 2025, the public elected a Liberal government that presented itself as a centrist party and the “grown-up in the room,” hinting at sensible policy changes that would benefit people in Canada. It has since become clear that they are instead governing from the right, and are both willing to sacrifice human rights and fundamental freedoms in the face of right-wing pressure, and use it to help push through regressive policies on climate, Indigenous sovereignty, immigration, security and defence, among other areas. Without opposition, the result will be less freedom of expression and association, even less protection and support for refugees and migrants, the gutting of international law, increased militarism, and an overall weakening of our democratic practices.

Increased surveillance and militarization

Three areas exemplify these concerns. First, the single largest example of the growth of surveillance and militarization in Canada over the past two years has been the push to “protect Canada’s borders,” through both greater securitization and crackdowns on migrants and refugees. In December 2024, the government announced $1.3 billion in spending for increased border surveillance and thousands of new RCMP and border security officers, and dedicated $80 billion in new defence spending in the 2025 budget, raising alarms around potential involvement in US imperial wars and “counter-terror” operations, from the Middle East to the Caribbean and beyond. Some of this is the result of long-term efforts by national security, defence and border agencies looking to bolster their powers, but the catalyst was the claims from US President Donald Trump that huge amounts of fentanyl, terrorists and ‘illegal’ migrants were crossing from Canada into the US, which both governments knew to be false, and that the US would no longer defend Canada if it didn’t reach NATO spending targets. These billions in spending come at the expense of human security due to cuts and lack of investment in housing, healthcare, environmental protections, foreign aid and peacebuilding efforts.

Legislative and repressive attacks

Furthermore, the government is reshaping the legal landscape. Since last May, the Liberals have introduced two dangerous border bills that are anti-privacy, anti-migrant and anti-refugee and will make people across Canada less safe. The first, Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, would grant unconstitutional powers to police and intelligence agencies to access our private information without a warrant, and demand that telecom companies modify their systems to facilitate government spying. The second, Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, was adopted in late March 2026. Its provisions bring drastic changes to immigration and refugee laws, placing further undue restrictions on refugee claimants seeking protection in Canada, abandoning them to persecution and violence, and granting the government broad new powers to cancel or suspend immigration documents en masse (including based on country of origin) in the name of an undefined “public interest.” These changes make Canada less safe and less open, while failing to improve the lives of Canadian citizens. Despite the government claiming this is about ensuring the efficiency and maintaining the integrity of the immigration system, it is cutting 3,300 jobs and $100 million from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Second, we have witnessed a proliferation of crackdowns on dissent and free expression. Provincially and municipally, this has taken the form of police repression and unjustified restrictions on protests, including Charter-violating bubble zone bylaws. At the federal level, the government has introduced Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. While this legislation has been framed as addressing the real and urgent issue of increases in violent hate crimes in Canada, it will instead create a chill against protest and dissent, and risk the criminalization of free expression and free assembly in Canada.[1] The introduction of the bill followed months of pressure on the federal government to take action against the multitude of pro-Palestinian protests and encampments across the country, and civil liberties advocates have warned that the provisions are overly broad, unconstitutional, and could easily be used in discretionary ways.

Weakened democratic process

Third, underlying all these changes is an undermining of government accountability, democratic processes and public engagement. Under the guise of urgency, the government has introduced omnibus legislation (which it had promised it wouldn’t do), held minimal to no consultations (and those that do take place are rushed and skewed towards government’s preferred outcomes), and rammed complex legislation through parliament that will have important impacts on the lives of people across the country. For example, Bill C-2 was tabled without prior consultation, is 140 pages long and proposes significant changes to at least 10 existing laws as well as creating an entirely new act. It was only after significant opposition from civil society, along with opposition MPs, that the government responded. Unfortunately, it was only by introducing new legislation that repackaged parts of Bill C-2 into Bill C-12. The government then used procedural measures to limit time for debate of C-12, undermining the ability to fully study it or bring amendments. It used similar tools to push C-9 through as well. On top of it all, while increasing powers and budgets for security and defence agencies, the government is cutting funding for independent watchdogs, such as the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. Already under-resourced, both agencies have said these cuts will “seriously hinder” their work.^[2] These bodies are crucial defenses to ensure that laws are being followed and rights protected, but just as they are needed the most, they are being slashed.

Unite and organize

These are all significant challenges, but they can be overcome. Civil society organizing is already moving the needle on many of these issues. It is crucial to act now to reverse course as others are continuing to push the government – and public discourse – further to the right. This means organizing in coalition across sectors, as there is strength in numbers. For example, the summer 2025 campaign against C-2 brought together more than 300 organizations defending migrant and refugee rights, civil liberties and gender justice, leading to the bill being shelved. It also means not just focusing on the government, but also on the public, and finding ways to change the narrative from one of division and exclusion, towards one of solidarity and collective well-being. Together, we can make a difference.

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[1] For more on Bill C-9, see Anne Pineault’s article, À Ottawa, un empilage inquiétant de projets de lois, in the last edition of Droits et Libertés

^[2] Wesley Wark, “Down comes the budget guillotine on the review bodies”, in his newsletter on November 10, 2025 [online].

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Here is what we’ve accomplished in the first half of 2026,
thanks to your support:

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, was introduced on March 12, 2026. If adopted, this bill will lower the threshold for law enforcement agencies to gain access to personal data of people in Canada, as well as force companies to modify their systems to facilitate government surveillance and data collection. This would include forcing online platforms to retain metadata about users – revealing who they talk to, and when and how, where they travel and more – for up to six months, a practice previously struck down by EU courts for violating privacy rights. They could also be ordered to install backdoors that Pocketlabs, Meta, Apple, NordVPN and more warn will seriously weaken protections such as encryption, rendering it meaningless. Signal has even stated that it will leave Canada if C-22 is adopted. The orders could all be made in secret, under indefinite non-disclosure orders. All of this would have ramifications on the right to privacy, as well as freedom of expression and association. In a deeply undemocratic move, the government passed a motion stopping debate on dozens of amendments at Committee, and there was no recorded vote at 3rd reading in the House. C-22 is now in the Senate.

Since the bill was introduced, the ICLMG:

• Published a statement analyzing C-22 and calling for its withdrawal
• Presented at a webinar in French organized by the Ligue des droits et libertés.
• Organized a briefing and discussion for ICLMG members
• Testified against C-22 at the Public Safety committee on behalf of the Centre for Free Expression
• Met with MPs from all parties to raise concerns about the bill.
• Created actions to stop C-22:
  • An emailing campaign
  • A click-to-call campaign
  • A letter-to-the-editor campaign
• Been among 30+ civil society leaders & groups that signed on to a letter urging MPs to kill Bill C-22
• Wrote a joint press release: Privacy experts and civil liberties groups denounce the Liberal government’s shut down of much-needed debate on dangerous state surveillance bill C-22

Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act

On June 10, 2026, the federal government introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act. The bill includes new requirements for online platforms and AI chatbot providers, age verification, and a new Digital Safety commission with broad, discretionary powers. Despite its title, the bill could potentially regulate a long list of services including cloud storage, online gaming, and message boards. C-34 repeats much of the contents of Part 1 of the last parliament’s unpassed Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act. Regarding our mandate, one similarity with C-63 is the (redundant and problematic) inclusion of “terrorist & violent extremist content” as an online harm alongside “violent content”. We have the same criticism we had with C-63: regulations around content that incites violence capture terrorist content and avoid the potential censoring of unpopular, unsavory or dissident content that can be falsely portrayed as extremist or terrorist (such as solidarity with Palestinians). A new aspect of C-34 is the introduction of a new definition of “terrorism and violent extremism” which is broader than what is currently in the Criminal Code. Since the tabling of the bill, we’ve:

• Attended a government briefing on Bill C-34
• Published our initial analysis of C-34 as related to our mandate: Much Needed Online Safety Rules Must Not be Used as Backdoor to Expand Terrorism, Violent Extremism Definitions

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Border & immigration bill C-12

The government tabled Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, in October 2025, as a response to critiques of Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act (now shelved thanks to civil society advocacy and public outrage), particularly around privacy violations. However, the bill replicated Bill C-2’s anti-migrant and anti-refugee provisions, such as: limiting the ability of individuals to claim asylum in Canada, in violation of international human rights law; allowing the mass cancellation or suspension of the processing of immigration documents (ex: visas and permanent residency cards) for entire groups of people, including individuals from certain countries; among others. With support of opposition parties and time limits put by the Liberal government on Senate committees studying the bill, Bill C-12 was adopted in March 2026.

Since January, the ICLMG:

• Created an action against Bill C-12 targeting the Senate.
• Testified against C-12 at Senate committee and submitted a brief that was used by several Senators to introduce amendments that were, unfortunately, rejected.
• Participated in Civil Society Senate Briefing on Bill C-12
• Signed onto a press release condemning the adoption of Bill C-12 as an attack on refugee and migrant rights in Canada.

Bill C-9: The Combatting Hate Act

Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, was introduced in September 2025. The bill is aimed at preventing hate crimes but instead threatens the Charter rights and civil liberties of all people in Canada, including those communities that the government wishes to help protect. Bill C-9 will give police discretionary powers to decide whether certain symbols are hateful as well as determine the motivations and intentions of protesters, and would create new categories of buildings and infrastructure around which these new rules would apply. These new powers, combined with increased jail sentences, will significantly undermine free expression and dissent, sending a chill amongst those who would otherwise take part in protests. This bill is highly alarming, especially in the context of the crackdown on Palestinian solidarity and other movements. The government passed a motion to force debate to stop at committee on this bill as well. It became law in June.

Since last year, the ICLMG:

• Testified at the Senate Committee on Human Rights against Bill C-9
• Created two new actions calling the Senate to oppose Bill C-9 and shared them widely:
  • An emailing campaign
  • A call-in campaign
• Met with several partners to discuss, strategize and coordinate the fight against Bill C-9
• Signed onto the Joint Statement: “Senate Must Ensure Thorough Review of Bill C-9 to Protect Civil Liberties and Fundamental Freedoms”
• Submitted a brief to the Senate committee
• Reacted to the adoption of C-9: New federal hate crime legislation misses the mark, threatening free expression and other Charter rights: civil liberties coalition
• Signed onto a joint press release when C-9 received royal assent: 65 Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Faith and Community Organizations Express Serious Concern Following Passage of Bill C-9

Impacts of Countering Terrorism Financing

We continue to be heavily engaged in monitoring and addressing the impacts of Canada’s counter terrorism financing regime, especially its effects on civil society, civic space and international assistance. Since last December, we:

• Continued to engage in Finance Canada’s dialogue sessions with civil society, including:
  • attending GoC-NPO dialogue sessions on de-risking and the humanitarian authorization regime
  • providing feedback on draft terms of reference for a permanent Dialogue table
• Spoke on a panel regarding counter-terrorism financing, de-risking and the impact on the charitable and humanitarian sector at the Charity Resilience conference organized by the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC)
• Continued to regularly meet with the legal working group on counterterrorism and aid to discuss the impacts and ramifications of the Criminal Code’s humanitarian and international assistance authorization regime.
• Were awarded a grant from the TMFoundation for a research report and advocacy campaign on counter-terrorism financing, de-risking and impact on Muslim-led and humanitarian charities
• Presented at the Ottawa Civic Space Summit organized by Cooperation Canada on the panel: “Defend Humanity: When Closing Civic Space Constrains Humanitarian Response”
• Spoke at the Canadian Institute’s 25th Anniversary Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Conference on a panel about Canada’s 2026 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) evaluation, sharing ICLMG’s concerns about Canada’s approach to countering terrorist financing in the charitable sector and the need for reforms.

Combatting Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism

• We issued a statement regarding the Liberal government’s decision to eliminate the position of Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia held by Amira Elghawaby.
• We issued a statement on the 9th “anniversary” of the Quebec Mosque shooting – ICLMG renews commitment to fight Islamophobia on National Day of Remembrance and Action against Islamophobia – and updated our Resource page on combatting Islamophobia.
• We attended initial meetings for the 2027 Canada-Palestine Symposium
• Our National Coordinator, Tim McSorley, received CMPAC’s 2026 Community Partner Award

Opposing Canada’s complicity in torture

• In early 2026, the new Syrian regime attacked Kurdish forces, leading the US to transfer/render detainees from North East Syria to Iraq, despite reports that Iraq remains a country rife with arbitrary detention, torture, a systemic failure to conduct fair trials, and execution in so-called national security cases. In March 2026, the United Nations Human Rights Committee called on Canada to repatriate 14 Canadian men and children (as well as two mothers of the children) in order to end what has in some cases been upwards of a decade of arbitrary detention under appalling conditions in north-eastern Syria and, more recently, in Iraq. On both occasions, we updated and reshared our action calling on Canada to repatriate all Canadians and mothers of Canadian children.
• June 26th was the United Nations’ International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In recognition of that day, the ICLMG sent three letters to the Canadian government calling on them to stop their complicity in torture in three different cases – and we updated and re-shared our actions related to the first two cases:

1. 1. A letter to the Minister of Public Safety, calling on him to stop the deportation to torture proceedings against Mohamed Harkat once and for all. The letter contains important new developments that support allowing Moe Harkat’s to stay in Canada, including the recent decision from a Federal Court Justice ruling as unreasonable a Minister’s delegate decision stating that protection against refoulement to torture didn’t apply to Moe Harkat, despite his being a UN Convention refugee.
   2. A letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, calling on her to repatriate all Canadians arbitrarily detained in northeast Syria, and now in Iraq, in life-threatening conditions akin to torture. This letter also shares important updates including the call from the UN Human Rights Committee for Canada to repatriate all its citizens from NE Syria and Iraq, and the recent report from Human Rights Watch that warns about unfair trials, torture and the common use of death penalty in Iraq.
   3. A letter to the Minister of Justice, calling on the Canadian government to swiftly implement the apology and compensation we are confident the federal court will include in its upcoming decision regarding Abousfian Abdelrazik’s lawsuit against the government for its role in his illegal detention and torture in Sudan.

No-Fly List

In February 2026, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency released a report which offers an unprecedented look at the internal workings of Canada’s no fly list regime, formally known as the Passenger Protect Program (PPP). NSIRA’s troubling findings reaffirm the fact that secret lists based on overly broad national security concerns are a recipe for rights violations. We sent an email and published a statement urging the Government to take immediate action to address the serious concerns with Canada’s No Fly List regime following this independent review.

Artificial Intelligence

• We continue to monitor the government’s actions re: AI and national security.
• We supported the launch of the “People’s Consultation on AI” in response to the government’s inadequate and rushed 30-day “consultation” that mostly took industry into account.
• We made our own submission to the People’s Consultation on AI.

Foreign interference

In February 2026, the ICLMG sent its comments to the federal government for their 30-day consultation on their proposed Regulations for the Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act (which was part of Bill C-70, the Combatting Foreign Interference Act, which was rushed through Parliament in May and June 2024).

Anti-terrorism, national security & international bodies

We continue to do work at the international level. Since December, the ICLMG:

• Attended a meeting and sent comments to the Canadian Delegation for the review of Canada’s 7th report on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
• Participated in the CSO Coalition on Human Rights and Counterterrorism’ UN working group, analyzing and providing feedback on the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy and the Coalition’s response.

And more!

• Nous avons écrit un article intitulé “Montée autoritariste : le Canada n’y échappe pas!” pour le plus récent numéro de la revue de la Ligue des droits et libertés (it will be available to read online and in English as well soon).
• The ICLMG joined more than a hundred prominent law and human rights experts, labour sector leaders and civil society organizations in warning that the proposed amendments to the Red Tape Reduction Act in Bill C-15 set Canada on a dangerous anti-democratic track.
• We published our News Digest every other week, which is distributed to thousands of people and has received numerous accolades.

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ICLMG IN THE MEDIA

The Carney government’s expanding power to identify Canadians online, access their data—and punish them, Graeme Gordon, The Hub, July 6, 2026

Coalition says feds need to ensure C-9 doesn’t create a ‘chilling effect’ on protests, Marco Vigliotti, June 19, 2026

Open Letter: Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access, The Internet Society, The Hill Times, Spring 2026

Bill to help authorities probe online activities raises widespread privacy fears, Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, 10 May 2026

Réforme migratoire : montée des critiques face aux risques pour la santé, Paloma Martínez Méndez, Radio-Canada, 1 May 2026

Carney’s Attack on Refugees and Migrants: Bill C-12 and cutting refugees’ access to healthcare pave a dangerous path forward, Rahul Balasundaram, The Leveller, 21 April 2026

Premières Nations, premières victimes de l’espionnage politique, Alexandre Popovic, Pivot, 20 April 2026

Criticism of Bill C-12 grows over risks to the health of refugees and migrants, Paloma Martínez Méndez, Radio-Canada International, 3 April 2026

Bill C-12 curbing asylum, immigration rights becomes law amid warnings of court challenges, Marie Woolfe, The Globe and Mail, 28 March 2026

Anti-hate bill that provoked bitter debate over religious freedom passes the Commons, Marie Woolfe, The Globe and Mail, 27 March 2026

I spoke to over 30 sources about Mark Carney’s first year as prime minister. This is the picture that emerged, Althia Raj, The Toronto Star, 13 March 2026

Documents reveal more about powerful forces behind push for warrantless lawful access, Ken Rubin, The Hill Times, 12 February 2026

Critics, pollsters warn Canadians are wary of AI, want government to set guardrails, The Canadian Press, 21 January 2026

Upholding human rights for Hassan Diab, Sandra Wiens, Quaker Concern, Winter 2026

Check out all coverage of ICLMG in the media here.

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What we have planned for the rest of 2026!

We have our work cut out for us! This Liberal government is not only churning out bill after bill that restrict our rights and freedoms, it’s also using nearly every power and tool at its disposal to impose its unpopular and damaging agenda and erode the parliamentary process. In that context, we need all the help we can get!

Your support will allow us to continue our work of defending civil liberties in Canada from the negative impacts of anti-terrorism and national security laws and actions.

There will most likely be new challenges when the House of Commons comes back in the Fall, but right now here is our plan:

• We will take our fight against the state surveillance bill C-22 to the Senate
• We will push back against Bill C-34’s expansion of terrorism and violent extremism definitions that could restrict free expression, and addressing the lack of regulation on the use of AI in national security
• We will continue and deepen our work on the negative impact of countering terrorist-financing and de-risking on Muslim-led and humanitarian charities
• We will monitor the implementation of Bills C-9 and C-12 that are now law
• We will continue our work on the following:
  • Advocating with lawmakers and officials to protect civil liberties from the overall negative impact of national security
  • Protecting privacy from government surveillance, including facial recognition, and from attempts to weaken encryption, along with advocating for privacy law reform
  • Advocating for restrictions on Canadian information sharing with the US, including the application of the US No Fly List in Canada
  • Campaigning for the repeal of secretive and rights violating national security lists, such as the Terrorist Entities List and the Canadian No Fly List
  • Pushing back against the rapid expansion of new security measures at the border and the false narrative depicting migrants and refugees as security risks
  • Advocating for rights protection and accountability from border agencies, including by pushing for and monitoring the creation of a new CBSA and RCMP watchdog agency
  • Opposing the escalating repression of free expression, dissent and protest in the name of “countering terrorism,” including the crackdown on protests in support of Palestinian human rights and against the genocide in Gaza.
  • Fighting for Justice for Mohamed Harkat, an end to security certificates, and addressing problems in security inadmissibility
  • Fighting for Justice for Hassan Diab and reforming Canada’s extradition law
  • Calling for the return of Canadian citizens and the non-Canadian mothers of Canadian children, who remain indefinitely detained in Syrian camps and now Iraqi prisons.
  • Pushing for restrictions on the implementation of new foreign interference laws
  • Keeping you and our member organizations informed via the News Digest
  • And much more!

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