The Calibration of Rights
Have we slid inadvertently into a two-tier approach to liberty? October 2011
It is widely accepted that in order to protect our freedom we must acknowledge that it must be curtailed by balancing it against security imperatives. In The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism, Colleen Bell argues the opposite. Our notions of freedom do not act as a counterweight to security but rather add to its mass and…