The Liberal government has tabled a bill that would amend the Criminal Code so that Canadian aid workers can carry out duties in areas controlled by terrorists without being prosecuted for inadvertently funding such groups.
Mendicino will speak about the legislation at a meeting of the House of Commons justice committee, along with senior bureaucrats. “These amendments unfortunately create new bureaucratic hurdles for organizations to overcome,” the group argued in a press release last month.
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