Sentences with phrase «preventive peace bonds»

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CCLA is focusing on the new powers and crimes created by Bill C - 51 with specific attention to the broad and rash information sharing pursuant to the new Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, and amendments to the CSIS Act, and Criminal Code, which all affect powers of preventive arrest, longer pre-charge detentions, lowered thresholds for peace bonds, and increased powers of CSIS.

They can also face the additional sanctions of preventive arrest and peace bonds.

Furthermore, a terrorism suspect can be detained much longer if he is charged with an offence and is unable to show cause for bail than if he is subject to a preventive arrest or peace bond.

Bail denial will last much longer than the seventy - two hours maximum for preventive arrest or even the one - year period for a peace bond.

While Canada has not yet used preventive arrests and peace bonds for suspected terrorists, these legal instruments remind us that the criminal law, like immigration law, has preventive aspirations.

It is difficult to know why Canadian authorities have not used the preventive arrest powers and have used peace bonds sparingly.