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– Canadian government rejects improvements to national security oversight (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News March 9, 2017

CJFE is disappointed by the federal government’s decision to reject changes made by the House of Commons Public Safety Committee to Bill C-22, an act to establish a National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
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