Mi’kmaq lawyer and professor Pam Palmater

said the federal government is tracking her activism. She said access-to-information documents reveal that she is being surveilled by three federal government departments.

“I wrote an access to information request to CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), National Defence, the RCMP and Indian Affairs to determine whether or not they were following (or) surveilling me in any way and three out of the group all confirmed that they were,” she told CTV Question Period during a discussion about Bill C-51, the anti-terrorism legislation. Palmater is concerned the bill’s wording casts a wide net that will capture First Nations and environmental activists, branding legitimate title and rights protests under the terror banner.