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Dale Smith, Special to QMI Agency Mar 26, 2015

, Last Updated: 4:57 PM ET

OTTAWA The Liberals might be reluctantly on board to support the Conservatives' controversial anti-terror bill, C-51, but they still want some changes made.

A pair of Liberal MPs released a list of 10 changes their party want to see before the bill, currently before a Commons committee, is made law.

Most of those amendments deal with the concerns being raised by critics, who say Bill C-51 compromises privacy and allows too much freedom to Canada's spy network without oversight.

"There's no question that Canadians have concerns about this bill, and that is why we are presenting these 10 amendments," Liberal public safety critic Wayne Easter said.

Easter, a former solicitor general, said the amendments do not throw up roadblocks to the bill, but simply raise the party's biggest concerns, and echo what Liberals have heard from the majority of witnesses at committee.

The main amendment would put in place a parliamentary oversight committee, similar to those in allied countries.

The previous Liberal government proposed something similar in 2005 but didn't get to pass it before they were defeated.

Another amendment would force Parliament to review the law in three years to judge its effectiveness.

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