A timeline of political violence and rising security on Parliament Hill since 2014
Death threats, arson, violent imagery, vandalism, and more: Canadian politics is becoming more violent, MPs say.
Harsher bail reforms an expensive ‘fool’s game’ that neglects evidence-based solutions, say criminologists
Queen’s University Criminology Professor Nicole Myers said that reactionary measures meant to appear ‘tough on crime’ focus on the ‘low-hanging fruit while ignoring the root of the problem.’
‘Most vulnerable population on Earth’: politicians urged to consider wildfire impacts on children as towns evacuated
UNICEF Canada president and CEO Sevaun Palvetzian says youth will ‘carry the heaviest burden if we don’t get this right.’
Forty years on, CSIS deserves more respect
The Trudeau government doesn’t seem to have taken threats to Canada with the gravity they deserve. There can be serious security consequences for that neglect.
Canadian politics is ‘not safe’ right now, and MPs ‘are in harm’s way’: former public safety minister
‘Many’ MPs work ‘in a perpetual state of fear,’ says Liberal MP Marco Mendicino. NDP MP Charlie Angus was recently accosted at a beach in his riding. House Sgt.-at-Arms Patrick McDonell said harassment of MPs has increased almost 800 per cent in the last five years. Countless MPs, cabinet ministers, party leaders, and the prime minister have been subjected to threats and death threats. This should not be normal.
House National Defence Committee floats idea of permanent workforce, engineering corps to reduce reliance on military during natural disasters
The increase in domestic operations has strained CAF resources and reduced operational readiness for global threats, the House National Defence Committee report said.Among the 16 recommendations in the report were calls for the government to consider creating a civilian corps of engineers within CAF, similar to the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Foreign interference bill passes, but online harms and citizenship bills left on hold until House comes back
Bill C-63, the Liberal government’s Online Harms Act, and Bill C-71, an act to amend the Citizenship Act (2024), are stuck at second reading until the House returns in September.
Imprisoning migrants in federal jails is unfairness for every generation
As they debate the budget, MPs must stay true to the Charter, and stop the expansion of immigration detention into federal prisons, writes Ketty Nivyabandi.
Cloud of suspicion partly lifts, but party games continue
The fallout from the parliamentary foreign activity report did nothing to re-establish Canadians’ trust in the system.
‘A permissive environment’: four security gaps flagged by NSICOP where Ottawa has been slow to act
Former CSIS executive Dan Stanton says the government is ‘playing catch up’ on foreign interference, partly because the ‘subtlety’ of the threat has made it too easy to ignore the issue.
