Tag: Canada Border Services Agency

Canada’s Bill S-7 Fails to Protect Travellers’ Personal Privacy: Civil Rights Group

A new Senate bill that would allow Canadian border agents to examine contents stored on travellers’ personal digital devices if an officer has “reasonable general concern” sets a low standard that fails to protect individual privacy, a civil rights group says. Bill S-7, the Liberal government’s proposed legislation that seeks to amend the Customs Act and…


Meng’s Lawyers to Resume Case in Court, Allege Her Arrest Was Unlawful

VANCOUVER—The actions of RCMP and Canadian border officers in the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou are expected to be at the centre of her extradition case today as it resumes in B.C. Supreme Court. Meng was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver’s airport at the request of U.S. officials to face fraud charges related…