{"id":429,"date":"2000-01-09T21:13:51","date_gmt":"2000-01-10T02:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=429"},"modified":"2015-02-23T01:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:14:31","slug":"the-disruption-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/the-disruption-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"History lessons: The Disruption Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-51 does not explain\u00a0precisely what the \u201cdisruption\u201d powers in the proposed Bill entail. It gives CSIS licences to engage in break-ins, computer hacking, draining bank accounts, ripping up passports, \u201csmear campaigns,\u201d kidnapping, indefinite detention or much more that violates constitutional rights \u2013 so long as in advance judges sign off, based only on a vague notion of national security in a secret warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Legal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiterrorlaw.ca\/\">experts<\/a> say this makes &#8220;judges enablers of executive illegality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Disruption powers are not new to CSIS or to Canadian espionage. \u00a0In the lead-up to the G8, it was later exposed, CSIS conducted a massive operation of infiltration. But the tactic goes back much earlier. For example, on March 27, 1975, the Canadian cabinet published a secret directive called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Disruption Mandate<\/span>. This memo, recently released by The Globe, empowered the bygone RCMP Security Service to do what was deemed necessary for \u201cdeterring, preventing, and countering\u201d threats, in secret.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting activities and scandals led to the McDonald Commission and the creation of CSIS.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the most famous was in 1972, when the RCMP Security Service burnt down a barn in rural Quebec to prevent a meeting between suspected Front de lib\u00e9ration du Qu\u00e9bec separatists and Black Panthers. The act came to symbolize years of unconstrained &#8220;disruption&#8221; activities by the Mounties.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the power of disruption is basically a euphemism to do just about anything. \u00a0In fact, the only limits to CSIS&#8217;s powers\u00a0\u00a0in the Bill are that\u00a0they cannot kill or harm, or \u201cviolate the sexual integrity\u00a0of an individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE DISRUPTION MANDATE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RECORD OF CABINET DECISION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Meeting of March 27, 1975 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Role, Tasks and Methods of the RCMP Security\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>No, 7327 F. 2 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet agreed that:<\/p>\n<p>(a) the RCMP Security Service be authorized to maintain internal security by discerning, monitoring, investigating, deterring, preventing and countering individuals and groups in Canada when there are reasonable and.probable grounds to believe that they May be engaged in or may be planning to engage in:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(i) espionage or sabotage;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(ii) foreign intelligence activities directed toward gathering intelligence information relating to Canada;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(iii) activities directed toward accomplishing governmental change within Canada or elsewhere by force&#8217;or violence or any criminal means;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(iv) activities by a foreign power directed toward actual or potential attack or other hostile acts against Canada;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(v) activities of a foreign or domestic group directed toward the commission of terrorist acts in or against Canada; or<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(vi) the use or the encouragement of the use of force, violence or any criminal means, or the creation or exploitation of civil disorder, for the purpose of accomplishing any of the activities referred to above;<\/p>\n<p>(b) the RCMP Security Service be required to report on its activities on an annual basis to the Cabinet Committee on Security and Intelligence;<\/p>\n<p>(c) the&#8217; Solicitor General prepare for consideration by .the Prime Minister a public statement concerning the&#8217;role of the- RCMP Security Service.<br \/>\nR. F. Charro \u2022 Supervisor of Cabinet Documents<br \/>\nApril 1, 1975<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mass united action can defeat Bill C-51\" href=\"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/stopc51\/\">Stop Bill C-51 campaign site.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-51 does not explain\u00a0precisely what the \u201cdisruption\u201d powers in the proposed Bill entail. It gives CSIS licences to engage in break-ins, computer hacking, draining bank accounts, ripping up passports, \u201csmear campaigns,\u201d kidnapping, indefinite detention or much more that violates constitutional rights \u2013 so long as in advance judges sign off, based only on a&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c-51-campaign-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}