Slashdot Mirror
The Quiet Death of the Canadian Internet Survellance Bill
mykepredko writes "C-30, Canada's version of SOPA, would grant the federal government and law enforcement agencies the power to obtain information about individuals who are online without having to apply for a warrant is dead in committee. 'I don't know whether it was because the Minister so screwed up the messaging, or whether they've had some other input saying they went too far or it just can't be salvaged,' Nathan Cullen, House Leader for the NDP, speculates."
...then it will just reappear, possibly a piece at a time, attached to some appropriations bill for homeless battered women's shelters.
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
It might have had something to do with the country wide revolt that was spawned when it was initially tabled and the minister refereed to all those who opposed the bill as supporters and practitioners of pedophilia.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
In Canada, first you get the syrup, then you get the power, then you get the women.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I'm guessing their masters got spooked and decided to do it slower and more quietly. Let the people forget about it so they think it was a one-time thing. It's not as if big content will have trouble anytime soon buying influence in government, they can wait and think of some other way to slip it in.
Right, could you please point out the relevant sections in the bill. The pre-post bill is online by the way, I'll wait.
Om, nomnomnom...
In Canada federal political parties can only accept donations from individual citizens, breathing biological entities, and the amount is capped around $1,000.00 per year.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Sure, unless you're donating to someone named "Dean Del Mastro", in which case you get reimbursed for your "donations".
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
That's been happening for years. Maybe this'll keep the bubble going for awhile longer.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
It's not dead. It's just resting.
It won't ever die with the kinds people that are presently occupying the office. If you want to actually kill it, a different class of people must be voted in.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
However keep in mind that it is confirmed that breathing biological entities with deep pockets can actually donate over 60k to their preferred political party by using a loophole to donate 200 dollars to each riding of their political party of choice. Something that's been acknowledged but Harper refuses to close for some reason. (Probably because his party is getting most of those willing donations lately. Probably by some people doing this very thing. - He -does- apparently serve corporate interests after all, based on all the pro-industry bills he passes, and union negotiations his party damages.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_Canada#Loopholes_in_contributions_limits
Additionally Harper has tried several times and continues to work towards trying to remove this limit and allow corporations to donate as much as they want.
And 3 weeks after he got his majority government he announced the elimination of the per-vote subsidy which currently funds most campaigns costs in canada to prevent the need for additional funding. So expect the reintroduction of corporation spending in campaigns in canada before too long.
As people started posting personal information they found on the internet of the Minister involved, Vic Toews. Including stuff about his divorce, affairs, all sorts of good stuff...
Good Times.
Reminds me of back in the day when Stockwill Day proposed a law to have a referendum vote country wide if anyone was able to get a patition from 10% of the population, so the TV political satire show "This hour has 22 minutes" did an online patition to change Stockwell Day's name to "Doris Day" and got 450,000 signitures....
Yet in the end, they still forced through the whole digital locks BS... No doubt we haven't seen the last of this. They will just wait awhile till people forget, then table it again grouped with budget or some other BS bill like that which is 12,000 pages long that nobody has time to read.
Wasted indeed. The Libertarian party in Canada is less popular than the Communist party. Their desire to scrap the Canada Health Act endears them to few.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
Libertarian would need reps in the ridings to vote for... I've never seen one.
Vote Green; same caveat the parent gave, but hey... they actually got a seat last time!
In Canada, in order to fix things, we need people who aren't interested in Politics getting fed up enough to run, and gather enough support to win, and then have enough morals to stick to their platform, even if it means getting voted out in the next round.
Personally, I'm willing to give the NDP a chance.
But you can vote Green if you're inclined to.
Why would I waste 50 hours of my life for a slashdot comment?
That attitude, my friend, is why you only scored a zero.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Not for a long time, if you know the difference between american financing vs. Canadian political financing. It's a heck of a lot more difficult to buy a politician here... Certianly not impossible, but something as hated as SOPA? Well, lets just say bribes big enough to take that political risk are more dangerous than the political risk itself.
> Um... It is the opposition's job to oppose the government, whether they agree with the particular proposition or not
There is a time and place for opposition -- but any ideology taken to an extreme, such as oppositional defiant, is never a good idea in the long run.
i.e.
So the ruling party decides that it needs it needs to limit its spending (ha!), and the opposition is _automatically_ against that? That's asinine. But then again, this is politics.
> If a party gets elected, it is not hypocritical for them to try to pass the same legislation that they tried to stifle when they were the opposition
Yes it is and retarded. Instead of doing what's best for everyone politicians are selfish bastards who only do what's best for them.
You're part of the problem by thinking such stupid "politics" is OK in the first place.
Um... It is the opposition's job to oppose the government, whether they agree with the particular proposition or not -
That's insane. So their job isn't to represent the wishes of their constituents, or even their best interests?