To keep the US happy, Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing Bill C-2 — expanding surveillance, limiting refugee protections, and eroding privacy in the name of national security. It’s Canada’s own PATRIOT Act, minus the excuse of an actual attack.

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    That’s pretty bad. I don’t know if the conservatives would have done much better though in terms of privacy and mass surveillance. I would hope so but yeah Pierre wasn’t much help to the party and neither were people like Danielle Smith. Both parties just suck right now and need to change.

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      The conservatives would have done worse. In every way. That said this government is just conservative lite. And not lite by much.

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        Can’t know for sure. But yeah I don’t really trust them. Privacy is very important to me and yeah mass surveillance is just bad. Privacy should be a human right. Sure mass surveillance could catch some criminals but it’s not worth spying on everyone just for a few bad apples. I don’t like this one bit.