“C-51’s political usefulness seems to be at an end; its political drawbacks are only now becoming obvious.
“One of those drawbacks is the risk of being seen as ridiculous. Two people were killed in this country by terrorists last year — assuming we define “terrorist” as loosely as possible. Prior to those deaths you’d have to go all the way back to Air India for an example of a major, successful home-soil terrorist attack.
“Meanwhile, a woman is killed by an abusive partner in this country every week. Three Canadians are killed by impaired drivers every day.
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“With or without Bill C-51, we will never be completely safe from a terrorist attack — just like we can never be completely safe from serial killers. We face a greater risk of being killed while driving to the bank to cash the cheques Harper is going to be sending us than we do of being killed by terrorists.”