The bills will — at the very least — signal the government's intention to fulfil key promises, but they are unlikely to be debated by MPs in any serious way until the fall.
"The pace at which these issues are arising is clearly accelerating, one of the consequences we believe of the phenomenon of climate change," said Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.
Someone in Ottawa was using a device that mimics a cell phone tower to spy on any user that unwittingly connects to the network, gaining access to data and phone calls on the person's device.
The U.S. wants information identifying, to the extent possible, who the asylum seekers are, where they came from, what travel documents were in their possession & how they obtained them, Goodale said.
Canada's national police force and border watchdog say they have the resources they need — for now — to deal with the influx of people entering the country illegally in search of asylum.
The federal government is making it easier to set up supervised drug injection sites in Canada while cracking down on illicit shipments of fentanyl and the import of equipment used to make pills.