{"id":771,"date":"2007-02-10T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2007-02-10T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:21:15","slug":"liberals-take-meaning-of-opposition-to-a-new-level-and-oppose-their-own-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Take Meaning Of Opposition To A New Level And Oppose Their Own Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what amounts to the Liberals coming out and stating “I spit in your general direction!<\/a>“, they have come out and opposed the Tory plan to extend the Anti Terrorist bill that the Liberals themselves created and passed while in power.<\/p>\n

The former Liberal government of Jean Chretien rushed the sweeping federal law through Parliament in the weeks after 9\/11, arguing law-enforcement agencies needed extensive new tools to deal with the threat of terror.<\/p>\n

But in response to concerns the law would trample civil liberties, the government placed a “sunset” clause on the provisions of the law enabling “preventive arrests” and “investigative hearings.” Both provisions expire at the end of next week, unless both Houses of Parliament pass a resolution to extend them.<\/p>\n

The Conservative government tabled a motion yesterday that would extend the provisions for three years.<\/p>\n

But now that the Liberals have withdrawn support, the motion looks doomed. Both the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois oppose any extension. A vote on the motion is expected next week.<\/p>\n

The Liberal shift surprised national security experts, who were expecting an extension to sail through Parliament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Has Dion lead the Liberals further left than they have been in a long time? Or is he opposing just to be opposing? I think it is a bit of both.<\/p>\n

What’s your take?<\/p>\n

H\/T to Werner Patels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In what amounts to the Liberals coming out and stating “I spit in your general direction!“, they have come out and opposed the Tory plan to extend the Anti Terrorist bill that the Liberals themselves created and passed while in power. The former Liberal government of Jean Chretien rushed the sweeping federal law through Parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,17,34,52,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dion-goofups","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-moonbattery","category-politics-federal","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}