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The struggle to fight for the rights of First Nations people is already hard enough without the bill, said Lynda Kitchikeesic Juden, the protest’s organizer.

She’s part of the Idle No More movement that has peacefully rallied across the country for the protection of indigenous land and water. She’s afraid the bill will give the government secret policing powers to stop these kinds of protests.

“I see paperwork coming from CSIS, and every one of our events is listed as a possible threat on the same order as, say, an earthquake in Greece and terrorist act in Tunisia.”

The bill, introduced in January, would restructure Canada’s security laws to allow police to detain terror suspects more easily, ban the “promotion of terrorism,” enhance powers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to gather and share data, and allow the government to add people to Canada’s “no-fly” list. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the changes would protect Canadians from the “evolving threat of terrorism.”

On Friday, the Conservative government announced that it would make amendments to the bill that will narrow the scope of what is considered a terrorist-related activity. This comes after a wave of protests across the nation rallying against Bill C-51. The government said it would also put forward an amendment that clearly states that CSIS agents would not have the power of arrest.

But for Ferrukh Faruqui, who joined the protest, the amendments do not address the biggest flaw of the legislation: the lack of oversight of CSIS.