My colleague Ian Kerr has a great op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen on last week's Supreme Court of Canada privacy-related decisions.
Kerr on Searching for the Privacy Balance
May 1, 2008
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Episode 274: Mark Musselman on What Stakeholders Really Think About the Government’s Reversal of the CRTC Online Streaming Act Decision
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Nonetheless, most canadians think that the police do a good job and that someone carrying illegal drugs deserves to be caught. What is these guys were carrying explosives? Or date-rape drugs? Bet you the civil liberties folks would find a way to justify sniffer dogs then