It was an anti-terrorism bill that was derided as authoritarian, “dangerously vague” and borne of Conservative paranoia. And one of the first acts of the Trudeau government was to make do on a campaign promise to rewrite it.
But in hindsight, 2015’s Anti-Terrorism Act seems almost tailor-made to combat Canada’s sudden new reality of having explicitly pro-terror rallies regularly hitting the streets of its major cities.
