Creepy Canada
Normally I would post this in the Canada forum, but thought it better that our PM's efforts be exposed to a wider audience as he continues implementing a neocon, right-wing agenda. We are learning his agenda also includes a simultaneous ramp up of spying on and intimidation of any serfs and peons daring to publicly object to his policies (making a mockery of the phrase "True North Strong and Free" in our national anthem). Those Americans who might be tempted to think, "If it all goes to hell in the USA, I'll just move to Canada", take note.
Now we're the Great Weird North, where citizens are to be spied on and not heard.
By Mitchell Anderson, 11 Feb 2014, TheTyee.ca
Is Canada getting creepy? It's getting close to Valentine's Day and perhaps a good time for Canadians to check in on our relationship with our federal government. The key ingredient in any relationship is trust -- something that has to go both ways. And I for one am not feeling the love.
Revelations last week that Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) was spying on Canadians cell phones through airport Wi-Fi networks only came to light due to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ontario's privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian said she was "blown away" by the news, adding that CSEC's methods seemed those of a "totalitarian state, not a free and open society."
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If the "Harper Government" is suspicious about the general Canadian population, they are downright paranoid about people opposed to pipelines. In 2012, Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver referred to Canadians questioning pipeline expansions as "environmental and other radical groups that would seek to block this opportunity to diversify our trade." A month later Ottawa released a revised anti-terrorism strategy that lumped environmentalists in with white supremacists as a threat to national security.
Seven major environmental organizations are now being targeted by Ottawa to have their charitable status revoked. Somehow Finance Minister Jim Flaherty found an extra $8 million in the 2012 belt-tightening budget that was specifically earmarked for Canada Revenue Agency to pursue some of the most vocal critics of pipeline projects. As Stephen Harper promised, our country is becoming unrecognizable.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/02/11/Canadian-Spying/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=170214
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Until enough of us make a concerted effort to literally pull the plug on this crap, the story is over. It's down to a very few who control everything but without enough worker bees to do their bidding, their bidding won't be done. There needs to be an incentive to convince the rest of the population that their very lives are at stake.
Don't know what that is but soon we won't have the interwebs to communicate freely on. Of course we're being watched now but we can still communicate... for now.
