The Canada flag catches the morning light on the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Groups representing minority communities are warning that a recently introduced law giving Canada's intelligence agency and the federal government new powers to counter foreign interference is open to abuse.Groups representing minority communities say they're worried about some of the wording in the federal government's foreign interference law.
That section is alarming the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the World Sikh Organization of Canada. "Canada has on many occasions ignored Indian operations targeting Sikhs in order to preserve trade relations and trade talks with India. That's really been at the expense of the Sikh community."
C-70 also amends the Security of Information Act, which deals with crimes against national security. The previous version of the law gave authorities such as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the ability to charge individuals who use "threat, accusation, menace or violence" in association with a "foreign entity or terrorist group" to harm Canadian interests, with penalties ranging up to life imprisonment.
CBC News reached out to the offices of Immigration Minister Marc Miller and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc with questions. Though the legislation itself has already passed, the NCCM said it hopes it can be tweaked through the regulations.
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