Canada Passes 'Anti-Terror' Spy Bill, Taking Away Civil Liberties
from the because-fear dept
While the US is actually showing signs of (marginally) limiting the NSA's surveillance capabilities, Canada has gone in the other direction. A month ago we mentioned the push on bill C-51 and it has now passed the Senate after passing the House of Commons a few weeks ago and is now the law in Canada. It's a broad snooping charter for the government to have much greater surveillance powers and take away civil liberties for Canadians, all in the name of protecting them from terrorists. This follows on France passing similar laws and the UK pushing for something similar as well. It appears that governments around the globe are seizing on the "Keep Fear Alive" mantra to get greater and greater power to spy on citizens.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Fascism on the rise
It doesn't matter whether it's "communists" or "jews" or "terrorists" that are used to justify it, these are just the scapegoats. The goal is the same, total control of the population.
Sad times.
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Wierd, eh? However, I hope and expect this one gets laughed out of court by our supreme santaclauses.
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b) is that ridiculous TAPI pipeline which was the prime reason before 911 and all that when the US was negotiating withthe afhgan government for the Turkmenistan/Afghanistan/Pakistan/India pipeline...14 years later and none of it was built. Read Pepe Escobar's Empire of Chaos book to get a feel of all the oil and gas dominating every other industries, yes, even silicon valley and the like. from a globetrotting journalist who has friends in almost every country out there, and some pretty high sourcs, but he protected his sources and never got shit from the US gov, true he doesn't live in north america, now, but he did for years
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jun 10th, 2015 @ 4:41am
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Also gotta like the minor limitations:
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Note that the bill doesn't provide any penalties for violating this minor limitation.
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Keep Fear Alive
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Making lemonade..
Methinks the NDP will be the only option.
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Canadian mainsream reporting
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Canada is a Dominion, not a Democracy, and its citizens have the rights to obey the law and die in war.
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Also, watch out Duceppe is back as chief ot he BQ, as the fal of the bloc is mostly whatgave harper is majority, not the NDP alone, it was a combo of two, and in the last election, the BQ in Quebec(obviously they dont have seats in other provinces) had 23 to 25% of popular vote, but since we work with the outdated british parliamentarism system of first pass the post (most counties won, nevermind the popular vote, Harper got away with very slim minorities very seldom with his evil plans from 2006 to 2011 when a vote of no confidence was voted in. So if the Bloc is back just moderately, I live in one of the ridings wth a BQ parliamentarian, got in as NDP and when they started to remove all socialism from the party constitution he said fuck these poseurs and joined the BQ and it's 3 other members. The person who caused all this debacle Maria Ourahni or something, she's a canadian iraqi who lives here since al ong time, and if the rhetoric that women have to wear burkas to prevent evil spirits inside men like lust to take control of them, man arab, (i mostly met Lebanese and Syrian girls (when they were still our friends and became our enemies for no reason, so now people like her..i think was able to get her citizenship but any would be Syrian wishing to leave for Canada...nope, even if you have a Master's Degree in anything oreven a PhD, Canada will refuse you, same with Iran. Canada has changed so drastically under that, i'm out of insulting true epithets right now
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and the thing is, this is exactly what it's all about! this is exactly what the various governments wanted to do all along! they haven't had the slightest interest in trying to stop terrorist attacks and they no full well that they wont get even marginal information from listening in on all the phone calls, reading all the mail, etc etc. the whole aim is to be able to know what every single ordinary person is doing, saying, thinking, writing and where they are going and who they are meeting.this is total bullshit about wanting to stop terrorists, they are far too sneaky for this to have any hope in catching them. as us ordinary people have nothing to hide, the government can now find out everything about us and the most likely reason is in case we are earning more money that we say and are not paying that extra bit in tax! it doesn't matter that the likes of McDonalds, and Amazon pay less than a guy on permanent disability, despite earnings hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter, it's too much like hard work for the IRS to go after them, but us, it's a walk in the park!!
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Orders from Britain - the head of the Five Eyes - to help normalize the coming martial law environment of the USA and stem the flow of Americans seeking asylum in Canada.
Canada is merely the "Tech Resource and Training" wing of Five Eyes, and like New Zealand (the Dirty Tricks and Wetwork wing), has to do whatever its told to do, regardless of the cost to the people of that nation.
Gotta stick to the Plan Stan. Can't kill the Internet without first establishing North American Martial Law ye know.
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Five Eyes pulls the wool again because... terrorists!!
Well geez, its about time.
After all, Canada has been wracked with literally hundreds of suicide bombers and dozens of ISIS assaults and beheadings, on an almost daily basis for decades now.
The country is a smoking ruin and the population devastated, wandering aimlessly through the debris of their once symmetrically perfect igloo cities.
No longer does one hear the old familiar refrain of "Ey! Howdy Ey!", among the homeless, war-torn remnants of that once happy land.
Its about time the forces of Goodness and Light had some laws with teeth to ferret out these huge nests of evil murdering muzlums, hiding under the now smoke-stained and burnt beds of the FUD frightened Canadian People.
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