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John Carpay: Liberals have Canada leading the West in state surveillance

New bills would allow the government to intrude on privacy and secretly boot individuals from the internet if thought to be a 'threat'

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Among the western democratic powers, Canada is quickly emerging as a leader in internet regulation and state surveillance.

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The federal government, whose efforts are encouraged by a mostly compliant public, is driving more and more of the human experience into a digital realm. This digital realm is a vast infrastructure of legislation, law enforcement and corporate partnerships in which people are becoming the objects of government analysis, modelling and manipulation.

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Bill C-2, which the Liberals tabled in June, would have allowed government agencies to demand personal data from online service providers and from any other organization that provides certain services to the public. As nearly every organization provides some kind of service to the public, however small, it seems that Ottawa’s goal was for every Canadian organization to fall within the shadow of its........

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