Todd Brown recently examined Justice Minister Peter MacKay's proposed Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code in response to the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Attorney General of Canada v. Bedford. What he found scared the crap out of him. The proposed change to the criminal code definition of "weapon" is not thought out properly. It leaves Canadians open to … [Read more...]
Bill C-13 is Conservative Government’s Attempt to Police Internet
Bill C-13 - dubbed the “Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act” is really an attempt by our so-called Conservative government to re-introduce measures from their failed Bill C-30, "Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act". You remember that one, right? That’s the bill where then-Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said you either sided with the government (and … [Read more...]
Unreasonable Search and Seizure – Will We Force DNA Samples from people simply for being arrested?
For a “conservative” government Stephen Harper’s Conservatives continue to prove they don’t know the meaning of the word. Justice Minister Peter MacKay spoke publicly about the issue of forcing people to provide DNA samples upon arrest and he thinks it’s a good idea. "I know there’s always privacy considerations in the backdrop to this and it has to be balanced in the bigger … [Read more...]