"Bill C-51, if passed, would allow Federal Court judges to limit all sorts of Charter rights, including the right of Canadian citizens to return to Canada. What’s worse, there is no guarantee that such judicial decisions will be made public, given the need for secrecy in terror cases".

How convenient this is for putting an end to political resistance? All it takes is for 'certain people' (no, what conspiracy?) to become irrationally frightened and label any inconvenient (or convenient) person as a threat in order to hold power over a more reasonable seeming agenda.

The most important thing to understand is terrorism itself and how it operates. The secrecy surrounding terrorism is the very thing which allows it to operate freely behind the veils of power. The terrorists, and by this I am not denying the dangers of extremism or extremist groups in any form, have become the reasonably powerful men and women who are acting out political agendas against others based upon their own fears and sense of self/group superiority.

Aint no chickens here, bring on the bad guys. But, now we have to worry about cowards hiding behind the arbitrary powers of rule enforcement and the ability to create legislation to suit their fears or ambitions.

I'd feel safer facing the assassin's blade again than to receive from a white wigged black robe the strokes of a frightened judgemental pen.