Les deux dispositions en question permettent de détenir une personne sans la mettre en accusation, et de la forcer à comparaître devant un juge et à témoigner contre elle-même, ce qui va à l'encontre d'un droit civil essentiel.
It was an era in which they were going to support rendition and torture. Those two provisions—the ability to hold someone without charge and to force someone before a judge to give evidence against themselves, which would undermine one of the most basic civil rights—were so contentious that even the Liberals agreed to sunset them.