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CND Government Demands Widespread Tap Access
north_of_49 wrote to mention a Globe and Mail article stating that the Canadian government is seeking the ability to conduct surveillance on the communications of its citizenry. From the article: "The major boost in interception capacity is in proposals the government has put forward in confidential negotiations with the telecom industry as it prepares new legislation on high-tech wiretapping scheduled to be introduced next month. Government officials insist their proposals will bring Canada's laws on wiretaps -- drafted when people still attached alligator clips to telephone lines to listen in -- up to speed with new technologies. But privacy advocates fear an erosion of safeguards, and telecom companies worry the government wants them to build in a costly interception system."
I'm pretty sure somehthing like this would violate the Charter of Rights.
Notwithstanding [universal human rights and all other laws of the country]...
We were better protected before the compromised charter was written.
Blame Bush? Bush is an idiot. Bush is a sock-puppet to his minders like Karl Rove and "Tricky Dick" Cheney. And they all get their marching orders from their corporate sponsers.
But it is those corporate sponsers who have grown so rich and powerful at the trough of government acquiescence in the USA that they can now extend their power to Canada (like they have already done in the UK and Australia). One need only look at the extended duration of copyright priviledge, and the crushing of "fair use" through DMCA, etcetera.
It is more the fault of the USA's neo(Con)artists in the US Congress who are to blame. And it all started with the GOP's "Contract With America" (, or rather "Contract on the Constitution and the Middle Class".)
You Canadians didn't really think that there was not a down side to NAFTA, did you?