Day defends costly anti-terror measures

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   Day defends costly anti-terror measures
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</td><td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\"> March 21, 2008  </td></tr></tbody></table>  Anti-terrorism measures may offend legal sensibilities, but they\'re necessary because Canada remains a target for terrorists, federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told law students in London yesterday (Mar. 20). <table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100\"><tbody><tr><td align=\"right\">                                                    <!-- IMAGE: 228456.jpg -->                                                                                        
FIGHTING TERROR: Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day addresses law students at the University of Western Ontario yesterday (Mar. 20). He said Canada has to take tough and costly anti-terror measures because our nation is a target for terrorists.                     (SUE REEVE/Sun Media)         
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. ~& S- n( F* _/ A         </td></tr></tbody></table> \"Centuries-old principles of liberty and freedom are being challenged a little bit,\" Day told a crowd of about 100 at the University of Western Ontario.
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Day said his government believes Canada remains a target for terrorists both internally and externally. Arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden has mentioned Canada by name as a target at least twice, he said.
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& `0 Z% J- ^' rDay said anti-terrorism legislation that allows detaining suspects without charge for 48 hours, the security certificate that allows detaining suspects, and increased spending for border and other policing measures are warranted in the current climate.
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While the bombing of an Air India plane in 1985 was the first terrorist attack on Canadians, it was the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S. that really triggered the anti-terrorism fight in Canada, he conceded.
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\"We believe we are a target simply because of the things we believe,\" he said. That means defending freedom by supporting NATO and the UN.

\"It would be very difficult for us not to be a target,\" Day said.
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He noted that post-9/11, a French newspaper headline screamed We\'re all Americans Now to underscore the sentiment that terrorists would target U.S. allies.

# P2 {/ j2 _: b* J" v% f5 I+ F& EAside from straying from long-established legal principles like the presumption of innocence, the right to speedy trials and open justice, Day said the country is incurring a price tag of about $6 billion a year to fund his office, which directs the RCMP, CSIS, border security and other beefed-up security measures.
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( n- Y  |* a7 U\"It comes down to what price freedom and what price security?\" he said, adding, \"The amount is not small.\"

+ ?) ^1 I9 x) p0 u# T3 O* U$ MThe public safety minister said further costs are incurred by the military\'s involvement in Afghanistan and international relief efforts intended to undermine the root causes of terrorism.
Chip Martin is a Free Press politics reporter.

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什么乱七八糟的？

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这是我最近参加的一个讲座, 是加拿大的公共安全部长讲的，在UWO法学院。
伦敦自由报的这位评论员，是专写政论的。那天他也在场。
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# x6 p- @2 S/ c6 M! `, F这个坛不是我们喝茶的地方吗？不过我这个报道已经够干的了。

爱在西半球

好多阿，第一篇看完就头大了，英文还是不成！

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正好练练阅读，呵呵！