CBC: Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother

[tuvor]

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First, Section 33 tells us that, "The Minister may designate persons or classes of persons as inspectors for the purposes of the administration and enforcement of this Act." So we're not talking about police officers necessarily. We're talking about anyone the minister chooses — or any class of persons. (Musicians? Left-handed hockey players? Members of the Conservative Party? Sure, that's absurd — but the bill allows it...)

Next, Section 34 spells out the sweeping powers of these "inspectors." And, if they sound Orwellian, welcome to the world of Section 34.

The inspectors may "enter any place owned by, or under the control of, any telecommunications service provider in which the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe there is any document, information, transmission apparatus, telecommunications facility or any other thing to which this Act applies."

And, once he or she is in, anything goes.


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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/16/pol-vp-terry-milewski-bill-c30.html

[saras]

1. I imagine Harper's people are behind it

and we know what kind of thugs they plan to designate - the exact same kind who were 'supervising' American elections until we stopped them, and now have moved up to corrupting them.

[Posteritatis]

2. The public safety minister *only today* actually read the bill, too. (nt)

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. 4 things that I take away from all of this is

1) I'm heartened to see a great many Canadians of all political stripes FINALLY get outraged about something. Christ, Harper has rammed though so much shit already, and no media has taken him to task about any of it. And the comment sections from even the RW Toronto Sun has pissed off Canadian 'tea partiers' who are now denouncing this bill.

2) Sending it to committee however, doesn't mean any of it is going to be changed. Any dissenting Con MPs will be disciplined, and they'll let the bill languish there until (they hope) this blows over. The entire bill should be torn up. (as should the omnibus Crime bill have been broken up and gutted (But at least now starting to crumble at the court level)).

3) Was harper stupid bringing this bill up in the climate of sopa/pipa/acta????? Or does he believe (maybe rightly so), that he can act with zero public support, with complete impunity.

4)I'm starting to have a little faith that the public may be able to drive him from office early, and reduce the Con-party back to 4 (or less!) seats again. Hopefully, people are getting sicker and sicker of Harpers social engineering, and avoiding the economy, sustainability, health care, sovereignty over our resources, and personal information, etc.

If he keeps this bullying up, we may re-discover our past greatness (i.e., on to Ottawa Trek, Winnipeg General Strike) and start to push back. As soon as the opposition parties are ready, I'd love to see some large scale, and coordinated push back, and massive letter writing campaigns to the Governor General to call for an unprecedented election.