Bill Detail

Part 1 amends the Canadian Security Intelligence Act to, among other things,

It also makes a consequential amendment to the Intelligence Commissioner Act.

Part 2 amends the Security of Information Act to, among other things, create the following offences:

It also amends that Act to remove as an element of the offence of inducing or attempting to induce — at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with a foreign entity or terrorist group — by intimidation, threat or violence, a person to do anything or cause anything to be done, that the thing be done for the purpose of harming Canadian interests when the person who is alleged to have committed the offence or the victim has a link to Canada.

It also amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, broaden the scope of the sabotage offence to include certain acts done in relation to essential infrastructures and ensure that certain provisions respecting the interception of “private communications” as defined in that Act apply to certain offences in the Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act.

Finally, it makes consequential amendments to other Acts.

Part 3 amends the Canada Evidence Act and makes consequential amendments to other Acts to, among other things,

It also adds references to international relations, national defence and national security in a provision of the Criminal Code that relates to the protection of information, as well as references to international relations and national defence in certain provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that equally relate to the protection of information.

Part 4 enacts the Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act which, among other things,