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CSIS involved in wiretapping solicitor-client conversations

By immlawyer

pI was at Goodwin McKay#39;s Christmas party last week and ran into Kelly Sundberg, formerly with the CBSA. Kelly is now a PhD candidate and an instructor with the Department of Justice Studies at Mount Royal College. He also has a forthcoming book discussing the changes in Canada#39;s border security (due out later this next year).#0160;/pbr /divAll the lawyers there were commenting on the new #39;enforcement#39; first mentality of the CBSA, and the increase in IRPA prosecutions and investigations. Everyone had also mentioned the number and increase of occurrences where client documents sent to their offices from abroad was opened and examined by CBSA.#0160;/divbr /divAn interesting, and disturbing a href=http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/556760 target=_blankarticle in the Toronto Star/a indicates that CSIS has been monitoring conversations between lawyers and their clients (in this case, those under the Security Certificates). Dennis Edney has contacted the Public Prosecutions office to determine additional details.#0160;/divbr /diva href=http://immlawyer.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83454c13569e201053687b8bb970b-pi style=display: inline;img alt=Dennis Edney border=0 class=at-xid-6a00d83454c13569e201053687b8bb970b src=http://immlawyer.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83454c13569e201053687b8bb970b-800wi title=Dennis Edney //a br //divbr /

Full post as published by Canadian Immigration Blawg on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).