Privacy Vs Law

EvilGentleman: 5th Mar 2006 - 23:39 GMT

I would imagine that:
1 - The bill will not pass through the House of Commons, as the Conservatives do not have a majority in Parliament
2 - If for some reason this bill should be passed by the House of Commons, it will immediately wind up facing court challenges, as it clearly violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
3 - Once the politicians realize the information gathered on THEM may be deemed accessible under the Freedom of Information Act, this bill should quietly disappear.

But thank you for pointing this out. I will be keeping an eye on things.

P.S. I'm a Kahnawake Mohawk who was politically active during the Oka Crisis of 1990. This level of government interference is normal, by our standards. We have been living under illegal surveillance for ages. Welcome to our world.

Frequent Pliers: 6th Mar 2006 - 18:10 GMT

All they woud find out by eavesdropping/tracing me is that I am a biking fanatic, that I shop at Canadian Tire online, and that I read the New York Times... But then again, it migh be enough to put me in prison.

jack: 6th Mar 2006 - 18:29 GMT

i feel the govt. is getting too involved in citizens affairs. but look at these politicians, they are all scared of terrorists. it is too easy to infiltrate the cities and cause death. ex-pres clinton did not go after the terrorists who first attacked the wtc and the ship cole. then the news media attacks politicians because they could have done better. do you know that in paterson, new jersey and in other muslin areas the people cheered when the wtc was hit. we live in a crazy society that is consistently contradicting itself. i read years ago of religious predictions from aparitions of these impending dooms. i laughed them off and thought it was fantasy and insanity. a means of getting people to get back to church and God. there was a premonition of a great explosion in the sky that everyone around the world would see. i did'nt believe it but now after 5 years i realize that it was the wtc. everyone around the world saw the explosion in the sky. check it out yourselves by looking up, fatima, lourdes and garabandal. we live in a world where children are preyed upon as never before, kidnapped, raped, murdered. mothers destroy the baby in their own wombs, mothers kill their own children by drowning, its all insanity. sorry to get crazy like this, we want to live in a friendly and loving world. we want to travel and work and save and have a little fun in our humdrun days. im sorry for the way people were treated because of their race, creed, because they looked different. we took property and tried to annihilate the native americans, much like the germans did to the jews in the wwii. the racial hatred against blacks right up to today is horrible. we are 100 years after most of that hatred and have we changed that much. where is our prejudice today. life has changed.