Canadian Government Consults on National Security Green Paper
The Canadian Government will be consulting with the public until December 15, 2016, on key elements of Canada’s National Security framework in an effort to ensure that it reflects “the rights, values and freedoms of Canadians”. Participation in the consultation is being accepted online, by email, by mail and in-person. In-person events are listed on the consultation webpage. The consultation is based on Our Security, Our Rights: National Security Green Paper, 2016 (“Green Paper”), which is a publicly available document intended to prompt discussion of and providing background information for the key topics of the consultation. The government released a backgrounder detailing the topics for discussion on September 8, 2016. The ten key topics are: accountability, prevention, threat reduction, domestic national security information sharing, Passenger Protect Program, Criminal Code terrorism measures, terrorist entity listing procedures, terrorist financing, investigative capabilities in a digital world, and intelligence and evidence.
FATF Ratifies New Evaluation Methodology for State Regulation of Non-Profit Organisations
From October 19, 2016 – October 21, 2016 the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) held its plenary meeting, at which it ratified changes to its evaluation criteria in order to take into consideration the changes made to Recommendation 8. The FATF is an inter-governmental body responsible for setting and monitoring international standards for combating money laundering and financing of terrorism and proliferation. The changes in FATF’s evaluation methodology can be found on pages 117-119 of its Methodology Handbook, where new criteria are added for the assessment of Immediate Outcome 10 to ensure that countries use the new proportionate risk-based approach to regulation of non-profit organisations. Information on the changes to the FATF’s Recommendation 8 and its Interpretive Note can be found in our Anti-Terrorism and Charity Law Alert No. 46.