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To: robnhood who wrote (133312)	11/7/2001 3:17:01 PM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 436258

<<-- Labour on C-36: can a picket line be "terrorist activity"? -- OTTAWA, Nov. 7 /CNW/ - The Canadian Labour Congress opposes a number of restrictive and undemocratic measures contained in the proposed Bill C-36 designed to combat terrorism. In a brief presented today to the House of Commons' Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Canada largest labour organization exposes a number of flaws in the bill. "Making it easy to criminalize the democratic practices of working people is no way to combat terrorism," said Hassan Yussuff, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress. Speaking on behalf of 62 major national and international unions and 12 provincial and territorial federations of labour, Yussuff added that: "Canadian labour believes that terrorism can be fought successfully without taking away or reducing the ability of people to make themselves heard and to express dissent. This bill could allow authorities to define a picket line or a work stoppage as "terrorist activity". Government and Parliament can, right now, prevent that from happening. And this is what we demand." Among other recommendations, the Canadian Labour Congress calls on the Government of Canada and on Parliament to: a) amend the definition of "terrorist activity" to narrow the scope of activities to clearly exclude peaceful civil disobedience including advocacy, protest, dissent or stoppage of work; b) limit the operation of the Investigative Hearings and Preventative Detention sections to a maximum of three years, through the operation of a sunset clause. The Canadian Labour Congress is also calling on Parliament to extend the period allocated to Second Reading of the Bill and hold hearings in regions throughout Canada in order to give all Canadians an opportunity to review and comment on the many sections of a very complex piece of legislation. The Canadian Labour Congress, the national voice of the labour movement, represents 2.5 million Canadian workers. The CLC brings together the majority of Canada's national and international unions along with the provincial and territorial federations of labour and 132 district labour councils.>>>