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How NOT to win an election.

First, let everyone know that once elected you will eliminate open and independent press coverage on Parliament hill by shutting down the Official Press Gallery and replacing it with a government managed Private Press room where they will provide all footage and restrict access to only reporters they let in.

THEN….

You announce that if re-elected you will pass a massive “crime and justice” bill within 100 days, which has never been debated, had hearings or public consultation that includes massive, extrajudicial bulk surveillance over Canadians’ use of the Internet and forces Canadian ISP’s to change the physical structures of their operations to enable real time digital surveillance. What’s next? Federal licencing for .CA’s?

In all fairness, law enforcement does need better judicial tools to keep up with the awful things happing in some corners of the internet…but they must be JUDICIAL tools…once you take these tools out from court supervision…there is no oversight as to how they can and will be used and against whom. But history has clearly shown that when a government, any government gains unrestricted tools of this kind…abuse inevitably follows.

Here is a Snippet from Micheal Geist describing the meat of the policy

More important than process is the substance of the proposals that have the potential to fundamentally reshape the Internet in Canada. The bills contain a three-pronged approach focused on information disclosure, mandated surveillance technologies, and new police powers.
The first prong mandates the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight.

The second prong requires Internet providers to dramatically re-work their networks to allow for real-time surveillance. The bill sets out detailed capability requirements that will eventually apply to all Canadian Internet providers. These include the power to intercept communications, to isolate the communications to a particular individual, and to engage in multiple simultaneous interceptions.

Having obtained customer information without court oversight and mandated Internet surveillance capabilities, the third prong creates a several new police powers designed to obtain access to the surveillance data.

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