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Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping

Matthew Skala writes "Bill C-416, recently introduced in the Canadian Parliament, would if passed require Internet providers to provide wiretapping facilities to law enforcement — without a warrant, and with 'confidentiality' requirements reminiscent of the secret-spying cases we've seen recently in the States. This new Act is a reprise of last Parliament's C-74, which failed when the Government's term ended. Coming back as a Liberal "private member's Bill" in a minority government, it will have little chance of success without cross-party support; but with the Conservatives in charge, all bets are off if they can find a way to claim it's about terrorism or child pornography."

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  1. Re:you know ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Conservative Party of Canada believes that fictional words can qualify as "child pornography" just the same as photos of actual child-rape. For that reason, I can't consider the Conservative Party of Canada to have any legitimate place in a democratic system, and I wouldn't put much else past them.

  2. Re:The Honourable Mr. Harper, our champion. by Brickwall · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Privacy, yeah, he respects privacy by wishing he could tell us who we can marry. The bedroom, that's a good public place for conservatives to govern, isn't it?

    Why don't you go overboard a bit? He wasn't trying to say queers can't pack fudge in the privacy of their bedrooms, he was saying that he thought the term "marriage" should be reserved for straight people. He wasn't against the idea of "civil unions", so he wasn't trying to govern anyone's bedroom or legal status. He just wanted to preserve the meaning of concept that's as old as humankind.

    But that wasn't enough for you crybaby fags. So you whined and cried and depicted anyone who disagreed with you as racist, Fascist, and reactionary until you got your way. Now that fat cocksucker Kyle Rae is trying to convince the Toronto school board to teach elementary school kids that families consisting of a father and a mother are the source of most domestic violence and child abuse, and that alternate family structures (like two mommies or two daddies) are better for them. I'm guessing it will be in the curriculum by 2010.

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  3. Re:The Honourable Mr. Harper, our champion. by nosferatu1001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Cry baby fags" well done on the name calling, wannabe red necked hetero boy

    oh look, name calling doesnt help at all.

    How about this - the term "marriage" has been coopted to mean a union between a man and a woman, when originally it was much more loosely defined - hell, the concept used to encompass lots of people..... Why SHOULD straight couples have a special status, just because of the combination of genitals involved? Its not as if you've done much good with it - divorce rates are what again?

    Still, cogent rational argument isnt your forte, so how aabout you just fuck off you maladjusted, socially retarded prick.

    There, that feels better.

  4. Re:Editorial comments...bleh by MagickalMyst · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's not about right or left....

    It's about right and wrong.

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