Vic Toews is Just Plain Awful

"He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers," Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews said regarding opposition to his 'lawful access bill' which will soon be reviewed in parliament. The bill includes provisions requiring ISPs to

• Provide personal information to police and other agencies with no warrant
• Provide makers of technology to provide a "back door" to make communications accessible to police.
• Allow police to get warrants to obtain information transmitted over the internet and data related to its transmission, including the locations of individuals and data transmitted
• Allow courts to compel other parties to preserve electronic evidence, such as the gun registry database that conservative wants to un-preserve

Not to be confused with bill C11, The Copyright Modernization Act, Toews is willing to sink to the lowest of the low by comparing being against the above bullet points with child pornography, in order to pass his bill. This is ignorant at best and virulently vicious at worst.

The smart money in my opinion is ignorance, Towes' track record in the last couple of weeks speaks for itself, whether it is comparing private online data such as banking data to information which is publicly available in a phone book or compelling senators to be afraid of 'danger', not factual statistics relating to crime and that using intelligence derived from torture is a-OK, Towes, takes your safety and rights to heart.

Toews might be earning his reputation as Harper's cheif bomb thrower but given the above you have to wonder if he could figure out that one has to throw the bomb, before it blows it up in your face.

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cartoon source - Pascal - Montreal Gazette