Transnational Human Rights Advocacy and the Judicial Review of Global Intelligence Agency Cooperation in Canada

[Introduction]: “It is axiomatic that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 contributed to fundamental revisions in thinking about how to address the threats posed by transnational terrorism. To be sure, international terrorism had been a subject of domestic and international concern since at least the 1960s. However, technological advances, changes in global power dynamics, the fall of the Soviet Union, the subsequent proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, greater mobility of people and material goods across borders, enhanced communicative capacities, and the aggravation of colonial and cold war-based regional conflicts have contributed to a fundamental change in the nature and gravity of terrorist threats. By the 1990s, non-state terrorist groups had become extremely well-funded, well-resourced, and organized, while forces of globalization had enhanced their capacity to deploy these resources to inflict large-scale damage across great distances.”