Conservatives ‘beating drum’ on terrorism, says civil liberties lawyer

The Finance committee, which normally might be tasked with work on economic or government fiscal issues in advance of a budget expected by late April, will instead turn its sights on terrorism soon after Parliament resumes next Monday.

PARLIAMENT HILL—A government decision to launch the House of Commons Finance committee into a hasty study of potential terrorist financing in Canada suggests the Conservatives are attempting to “beat the drum on terrorism” in every forum possible as a federal election nears, sa...

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