In October 2019, the Confederation of Canadian Unions held its 50th Anniversary Convention in Ottawa.

Tim McSorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group discussed human rights and civil liberties in Canada, how legislation by recent federal governments is affecting them, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and how so called “anti-terrorist” laws are leading to racism and division.

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) is a national coalition of Canadian civil society organizations that was established after the adoption of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 in order to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror”.