Briefs

Brief presented to the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence on Bill C-59, the National Security Act, 2017, May 3, 2019

Full brief on Bill C-59, the National Security Act, 2017 (updated May 2019)

ICLMG’s comments on states’ recommendations for Canada’s UPR, June 14, 2018

Our Brief & Testimony at the SECU Committee on Bill C-59, the National Security Act, 2017, January 23, 2018

Brief to the SECU committee on Bill C-21: An Act to Amend the Customs Act, October 18, 2017

Submission of Information by the ICLMG to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in relation to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Canada to take place in May 2018, October 5, 2017

Brief on Bill C-22: An Act to establish the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence, June 12, 2017

Supplementary Brief on Bill C-23: The Preclearance Act, 2016, by the ICLMG, the Canadian Muslim Lawyers’ Association & the National Council of Canadian Muslims, submitted to the House Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, May 26, 2017

Brief on Bill C-23: The Preclearance Act, 2016, by the ICLMG & the NCCM, submitted to the House Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, May 12, 2017

C-22: An inadequate, worrisome and insufficient bill – A brief submitted to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, November 14, 2016

15 years of problematic national security and anti-terrorism policies and their consequences – ICLMG Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on the National Security Framework, October 28, 2016

Submission of information to the Human Rights Committee [HRC] for the examination of Canada’s sixth [6th] report on its compliance with the ICCPR, May 28, 2015

ICLMG Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51: Full Brief by lawyer Paul Champ, March 12, 2015

ICLMG Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51: Executive Summary

ICLMG Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51: Speaking Notes by lawyer Paul Champ

Bill C-24 on Citizenship – Submission of the Canadian Council for Refugees, March 26, 2014

ICLMG/CCR et al. factum for the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Mohamed Harkat Supreme Court case, October 10, 2013

Me Denis Barrette’s testimony against Bill S-7 before parliamentary committee, December 3, 2012

Submission of Information by the ICLMG to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in relation to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Canada to take place in April 2013, October 2012

Warren Allmand’s presentation on Bill C-42, Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act, before the SECU Committee, October 2012

Briefing to the Committee against Torture, 48th Session, May 2012 on the Omar Khadr case from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada & ICLMG, May 2012

Submission of Information by the ICLMG to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) for the Examination of Canada’s 6th Report in May 2012, May 2012

ICLMG Submission to Transport Committee on Bill C-42 Re: U.S. Secure Flight, November 25, 2010

ICLMG Submission to Public Safety Committee Re: U.S. Secure Flight, April 29, 2010

Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Laws in Violation of International Human Rights Standards, ICLMG Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in relation to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Canada, February 2009

ICLMG Submission on the Senate Special Committee on Anti-Terrorism Re: Security Certificate, February 11, 2008

ICLMG Brief Re: the Review of the Anti-Terrorism Act, April 2005

ICLMG Submission to the House of Commons Legislative Committee on Bill C-17: The Public Safety Act, 2002, January 28, 2003

ICLMG Brief to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration Canada Re: Bill C-18, March 28, 2002

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