The Harper government has given CSIS the go-ahead to provide information to foreign agencies even when there is a “substantial risk” it will lead to torture.
Toews: Send info to torturers
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Vic Toews is watching you
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews took a break last week from his busy schedule of tracking down terrorist environmentalists, expanding the prison system, and approving information swaps with torturers to put Bill C-30, the disingenuously named Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, before parliament.
Tortured policy
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has directed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to accept — “in exceptional circumstances” only of course — information obtained through the use of torture.