Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 13, 2012 @05:46AM from the unless-it's-on-opponents-of-the-maple-leafs dept.

omega6 sends this excerpt from The Star: "The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Friday warrantless wiretap powers that police have in cases of emergency. ... Ruling in a 2006 British Columbia kidnapping case, the country’s top court said a 1993 provision of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional because there is no accountability or oversight for the warrantless searches, either to the person wiretapped or in reports to Parliament. The unanimous ruling was written by rookie judges Michael Moldaver and Andromache Karakatsanis. The case revolves around police intercepting the calls of the family of Peter Li, the kidnap victim."

3 of 133 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Don't get your hopes up just yet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-13 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm sure the U.S. Supreme Court will just overrule them.
Re:more and more by w_dragon · 2012-04-13 06:24 · Score: 4, Funny

That's only a problem in the winter. The other 3 months of the year are great!
Re:more and more by Beardo+the+Bearded · 2012-04-13 06:39 · Score: 1, Funny

The Turks and Caicos have been asking to join Canada for years. We can't let them in because:
They don't speak French. It's Quebec fucking over the rest of the country again.

--

---
ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.