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Lawful Access Back on the Agenda in the Fall?

When the government announced earlier this year that its controversial lawful access legislation was dead, many suspected that the bill – which has resurfaced numerous times over the past decade – would be back sooner or later. Peter MacKay, the newly installed Justice Minister, recently suggested that it may be sooner.  According to Postmedia News, MacKay indicated at a recent speech and press conference:

MacKay said he also won’t be intimidated or deterred from considering new lawful access provisions despite privacy concerns that ultimately led to the death of previous bills.

Surveillance will unquestionably be on the minds of many come the fall and the question is now whether the government would consider wading back into the issue with the reintroduction of lawful access provisions.

10 Comments

  1. Throw enough poop at a wall…
    …some of it will stick.

  2. RoyalPhunk says:

    and we will be there to stop you. Peter MacKay. How about your tell us the status of our own Prism style spying programs because trying to pass laws to legalize it.

  3. RoyalPhunk says:

    and we will be there to stop you. Peter MacKay. How about your tell us the status of our own Prism style spying programs first before trying to pass laws to legalize them.

  4. Hmm, Peter MacKay is somewhat bumbling himself, but I hate to say that I might miss the sheer incompetence of Toews.

    It will be interesting to see if the government will try to hoist more surveillance laws on us in this current climate.

  5. If
    If someone knew of a direct connection between the fortunes of a well known criminal organization, and the prime minister’s office…. how would this surveillance change that? I suppose it would only suppress and threaten that someone who could expose it.

    Money & Power find each other. It’s not about what is being done, so much as the asymmetry of powers granted. Why can’t we read cabinet’s emails? Surely we citizens have more legitimate interest and probable fear in that data.

  6. Shameful
    MacKay has said that he will not be deterred by privacy issues that killed previous bills.

    He has also said that Justin Trudeau`s actions were illegal, which is a defamation aimed at the political enrichment of his own party, for which he should surely be forced to resign.

    In Harper`s own words, “The minister`s actions speak for themselves.” That is to say, he’s a tyrant and a liar.

  7. one word:
    vigilance.

    “MacKay said he also won’t be intimidated or deterred from considering new lawful access provisions despite privacy concerns that ultimately led to the death of previous bills.”

    Intimidated? INTIMIDATED? More like held to task.

    It looks like the plan with MacKay, as it was with James more on the copyright issue, is to simply ignore the overwhelming views of Canadians and instead to simply tell us all what’s good for us. Thanks dad.

    The term “cyberbullying” is nonsense. Call it stalking Canada; there are already laws against it, but Dad wants a piece of the PRISM too… Time will tell if our 38% dictatorship grifts us again. I’ve long since lost count.

  8. typo
    “James more” = “James Moore”
    (The thicker the rims on the glasses, the more I like a guy telling me my priorities…)

  9. MacKay wan’t Canada to become the new Egypt
    Egypt can’t seem to shake it’s despots, and Canada can’t seem to shake ministers who apparently want to be despots.

  10. Nice
    Very nice article, Mike.