Résumé
This book focuses on the law and legal instruments governing the Canadian state's response to events that jeopardize its "national security." Specifically, these are events or plausible threats with the potential to inflict massive injury on life and property in Canada-terrorism, natural disasters and epidemic disease, and foreign attacks and domestic insurrections. In addition to describing in detail the applicable legal principles, the book flags key dilemmas and challenges that run through national security law. It also critically assesses certain issues of contemporary relevance, such as the use of armed force, torture, government secrecy, surveillance, intelligence information sharing, and detention without trial.
Contenu
t. 1: Setting the stage. -- 1. Defining national security. -- 2. Dilemmas in national security law. -- Pt. 2 : National security structure. -- 3. The institutional framework for national security law. -- 4. The institutional framework in times of emergency. -- Pt. 3 : Key national security objectives. -- 5. Protecting against international insecurity and armed attack. -- 6. Countering terrorism at the international level. -- 7. Countering terrorism at the national level. -- 8. Limiting proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. -- 9. Protecting public safety and health. -- Pt. 4 : National security tools and techniques. -- 10. Secrecy. -- 11. Surveillance. -- 12. Intelligence sharing. -- 13. Interception and interdiction. -- 14. Detention. -- 15. Interrogations.