Sentences with phrase «granted sweeping powers»

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Just last year, the federal government was championing a law that would have granted police sweeping new powers to monitor Canadians» e-mail and demand customer information from Internet service providers.

Dell's condemnation comes soon after Theresa May, the British home secretary, earlier this month unveiled a draft piece of legislation that proposes to grant UK spy agencies and law enforcement sweeping surveillance powers.

Alberta has granted sweeping new powers to its energy minister as the province ups the ante in its trade war with British Columbia

Voters won't know they will be granting sweeping new powers to take away schools from local control and place them under state jurisdiction as the ballot language is vague, only asking if the state should intervene in failing schools.

While the States, vested as they are with general police power, require no specific grant of authority in the Federal Constitution to legislate with respect to matters traditionally within the scope of the police power, the broad sweep of the Twenty - first Amendment has been recognized as conferring something more than the normal state authority over public health, welfare, and morals.

CJFE's aim is to highlight concerns with sweeping new cybersecurity legislation Bill C - 59, which grants the Canadian authorities broad powers to monitor its citizens and conduct aggressive cyber operations, with some provisos that allow for government oversight.