Post #1197701
2025-03-20 23:26 UTC
@teledyn @RoyBrander @dkmackinnon The Court gave parliament a deadline to establish a proper standard to allow border agents to search phones and laptops. And so, the Trudeau govt. came up with Bill S-7, a badly flawed piece of legislation that would have established a new, a novel, threshold to search our personal devices - one of "reasonable general concern." Whatever that meant. https://www.readtheline.ca/p/paula-simons-the-government-is-trying
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@Paulatics@mstdn.ca 2025-03-20 23:30
@teledyn @RoyBrander @dkmackinnon Well, we in the Senate had a reasonable general concern that Bill S-7 was unconstitutional and a wholly inadequate response to the Alberta court ruling. And so, we amended the bill substantively to change the new standard to "reasonable grounds to suspect" - a much higher test. And we sent the amended bill to the House. The government was NOT happy. And the bill died on the order paper.