Canada introduces legislation to fight crime in today’s high-tech world

Rob Nicholson, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the other day re-introduced in the House of Commons two bills that would provide law enforcement and national security agencies with up-to-date tools to fight crimes such as gang- and terrorism-related offences and child sexual exploitation.

“New and evolving technologies provide new ways of committing crimes, making them harder to investigate,” said Nicholson. “We must ensure that law enforcement has the means to bring to justice those who would break the law. Twenty-first-century technology demands twenty-first-century tools for police to effectively investigate crime.” (more on homelandsecuritynewswire.com)