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Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims
An anonymous reader writes "As we discussed last month, the Canadian government has introduced Internet surveillance legislation that requires ISPs to disclose customer information without a warrant. Peter Van Loan, the Minister in charge, claims that a Vancouver kidnapping earlier this year shows the need for these powers. Michael Geist did some digging and revealed this as a lie — the Vancouver police acknowledge that the case did not involve an ISP request and the suspect is now in custody."
No, what happened to the Irish Lisbon Treaty vote was as follows:
Original question sounded like:
Do you want to be part of an unaccountable superstate which is ruled by Brussels, after fighting for your independence for dozens of years?
The second vote (just voted on) forced onto the people sounded like:
Do you want lots of free money from the other sucker 26 European countries to prop-up your now basket case economy, and so save lots more jobs? You'll still be in the unaccountable superstate, but look, we're giving you all this money to buy your vote.
Take Nobody's Word For It.