Consultations with Sask. producers ‘an opportunity’ for collaboration, says minister

OTTAWA — No matter what the decision is, the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on Quebec’s controversial secularism law will probably inspire violent extremist rhetoric, warns a federal intelligence assessment. In a March intelligence brief, Canada’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC) said it was “very unlikely” that violent extremists would target the court’s four days of hearings later that month on the challenge of the law known as Bill 21. But, ITAC noted, “it is a realistic possibility that the Court’s decision — whether the law is found to be constitutional or not — will...