Bill C-15 is one of the biggest threats yet to Canada’s rule of law 

The omnibus budget bill gives unprecedented power to federal ministers to exempt virtually any entity from all federal laws and regulation—except the Criminal Code.
The federal government is downplaying concerns by comparing an extraordinary new power in Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne's budget to the use of so-called ‘regulatory sandboxes,’ write Geneviève Paul and Anaïs Bussières McNicoll.

Someone builds a dangerous new device and asks you to trust them and everyone else who will use it in the coming years. You don’t know who will get to use this device, or to what end. This information is provided on page 300 of a 600-page document. Deeply worried? So are w...

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