Part 2 of Bill C-70 adds related new provisions to the federal Security of Information Act (proposed in the Bill to be changed to the “Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act” (FISIA)) containing the offences for actually undertaking secret influence activities that relate to the offences set out in the FITAA for failing to register and disclose influence activities. [...] Given the federal government has the power under the Constitution in the areas of defence, national security and foreign relations, it should assert its power to apply the provisions of the FITAA and FISIA to provinces and municipalities (and, again, territories). [...] This raises the question why the Commissioner of Lobbying is not empowered to impose AMPs on violators of the Lobbying Act and the federal Ethics Commissioner is not empowered to impose AMPs on violators of the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons (“MP Code”) nor for violations of almost all of the key provisions in the Conflict of Interest Act. [...] The appointment process for the Commissioner must be made independent and non-partisan, and the Commissioner must be required to issue a public ruling on every situation the Commissioner reviews, with reasons, and any member of the public must be allowed to challenge any decision of the Commissioner in court. [...] Under subsections 5(1), 6(3) and 6.1(1) of the RCMP Act the RCMP Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner and the Commanding Officer of each Division of the RCMP, all of which head up the police force that currently enforces these type of provisions in these laws, along with the director of FINTRAC, are all appointed by the federal Cabinet alone (no consu.
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Table of Contents
- Full submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on key changes needed to Parts 2 and Part 4 of Bill C-70 1
- Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act FISIA 1
- Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act 1
- FITAA 1
- Foreign Influence 2
- Transparency and Accountability Act FITAA Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act FISIA 2
- FITAA 3
- Lobbying Act 3
- Lobbying Act 4
- FITAA FISIA 5
- FITAA FISIA 6
- FITAA FISIA 7
- FITAA 7
- FITAA FISIA 8
- FITAA FISIA 9
- FITAA 10
- FITAA Constitution 10
- Foreign Influence Transparency and 12
- Accountability Act FITAA 12
- FITAA 12
- FITAA 13
- FITAA 14
- FITAA Lobbying Act 14
- FITAA 15
- Lobbying Act 15
- FITAA FITAA 16