Openmedia.ca released this video and renewed its campaign against Bill C-30 a week after the minister responsible said the bill was not dead.
Contrary to recent reports suggesting Bill C-30 has been shelved, last week Vic Toews, the minister of Public Safety, said the government is "intent on proceeding" with the bill.
"Our government has been very clear, that matter will be referred to a parliamentary committee. In fact we made it clear that legislation would proceed to committee prior to second reading," Toews told reporters last Wednesday.
Michael Geist, a Tyee columnist and law professor who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce at the University of Ottawa, also reported on his blog that Toews allocated $2.1 million to advance lawful access legislation. The allocation is in the Public Safety Report on Plans and Priorities report, according to Geist.
Bill C-30, which government calls the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act and opponents call the Online Spying Act, is a proposed amendment to the criminal code that, as Wikipedia says, "would grant authorities new powers to monitor and track the digital activities of Canadians in real-time, require service providers to log information about their customers and turn it over if requested, and make back door entrances mandatory allowing remote access of individuals' electronics, each without needing a warrant."
When the bill was first introduced, Toews accused opponents, who were concerned about privacy issues, of standing with child pornographers.
At that time, Toews also told CBC News that he wasn't aware of certain aspects of the bill, such as the warrantless access it provides police officers.
The legislation, and Toews defense and ignorance of it, spawned a number of protests, two of which took place on the social media platform, Twitter. The first, #TellVicEverything, encouraged Canadians to send Toews messages about all the mundane aspects of their lives. The second, #Vikileaks, published private information about Toews' divorce. The latter, it turned out, was the work of a Liberal party staffer.
"It's amazing that despite unprecedented public outcry," said Steve Anderson, executive director of OpenMedia.ca, in the news release that accompanied the above video, "that Toews is pushing forward with the government's costly and invasive online spying plan. Canadians will not be satisfied until the minister commits to removing warrantless access to private information or to pulling the legislation altogether."
OpenMedia.ca is a grassroots organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open and affordable Internet. The group works towards informed and participatory digital policy.
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Fiat lux
1 year ago
Every action causes equal
Every action causes equal reaction....as we learn it in highschool, then receiving years of brainwash in colleges, universities and from politicians on how to ignore it.
The more and crazier our commie lover "conservatives" get, the sooner the reactions will wipe them out.
History has thousands of years of precedents showing how this simple fact is always ignored by "leaders", , but never fails.
Ed Deak.
Steve Hetherington
1 year ago
and yet again--more lies
Spying on all Canadians with the excuse it's to protect children.F*##*g liars.If they were truly concered about the abuse of children tell me why a convicted pedaphile recieves such light sentences.By lying to us and using the excuse they are using are they not just exploiting the children yet again.
Harper and his piece of shit sidekick Toews cried fowl when wikileaks printed personal aspects of Toews and his infidelity .Still they see fit to spy into our lives.
Why is not the opposition screaming fowl on this matter----to damn busy wining about "dutch disease" and slamming the west.
Oh how the world must be laughing at us.
Sad.
pwlg
1 year ago
...its 1984 all over again...doublethink/newspeak=doublespeak
He is something directly related to Bill C-30
"OTTAWA (CP) - The Harper government is using its massive budget bill to quietly scrap a key official overseeing Canada's spy agency.
Julie Carmichael said the unannounced decision to cut the office — known as the minister's eyes and ears on CSIS — will actually strengthen independent oversight of the agency."
Eva Plunkett is or won't be Canada's Inspector General if Budget Bill is passed the way it is currently presented.
"MSN News Canada - Plunkett's annual reports to the minister — released under Access to Information in censored form — have been frank and often highly critical, including a warning last year that the spy agency was failing to follow new accountability standards set by the Supreme Court of Canada.
In 2009, she had warned of "deeply concerning" inaccuracies in CSIS's work in "key core activities of the service."
Paul Kennedy, the former head of the RCMP watchdog agency who was dumped by the Conservative government in 2009, said killing the inspector general's office fits a pattern.
"What there is is an erosion of institutions that provide some degree of safeguard and assurance to the Canadian public that things are being done correctly in an area which can only be the highest priority, which is the national security of Canada," Kennedy, a former counsel to CSIS and assistant deputy solicitor general, said in an interview."
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP (MacDonald Commission-1977-1981) was created to investigate the RCMP after a number of illegal activities by the RCMP's Security Service in the 1970's became public (break-ins, illegally opening mail, forging documents, illegal electronic surveillance, stealing political party membership lists, arson...).
One of the recommendations was to remove the nation's security detail from the RCMP and create in 1984 a new organization, CSIS, with public oversight.
What the Harper Plutocrats and Dominionists want to do is remove public oversight and return to the 70's when the so called "public safety" organizations could commit illegal activities without anyone having knowledge of them.
There are so many examples in history of governments acting this way and the outcomes of such behaviour. I don't think I have to mention any of them here, but Spain, Greece, Germany, Argentina are just a few.
WTFU Canada!
pwlg
1 year ago
Wake Up you gun carrying rural folks
Your Conservatives removed the gun registry.
Now they want to institute an even more invasive measure to pry into your privacy that will cost ISP's and others an estimated $2 billion.
If you thought the Liberals $1 billion gun registry was a waste of our tax dollars what do you think about this?
Where are all you free enterprise Ayn Rand gun totting rugged individualists?