Border bill powers would allow warrantless police requests to doctors, abortion clinics, hotels

New powers in the government’s border bill would allow the police and CSIS to request information about services provided to people from abortion clinics, doctors, hotels and other bodies without a warrant from a judge. Civil liberties groups, researchers and opposition MPs have raised fears that the new “snooping powers” would erode personal privacy and breach Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They say they could give the authorities access to personal information about people’s lives, including medical help they have sought or online services they use, without judicial approval.