Thank God for Sun News. Ezra hits the nail on the head yet again…
What a pleasure to see Canada’s consensus media so concerned about the erosion of privacy and civil liberties under a proposed new crime law called Bill C-30, introduced by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
Government snooping didn’t bother the media pack when it came in the form of the long-form census and its invasive personal questions — to be forcibly answered on pain of fines and even prison.
It didn’t bother the media pack when personal data was collected from farmers and duck hunters for the firearms registry (including information about their romantic lives and medical history).
And the media pack didn’t sympathize when consenting adults tried to sell wheat to each other in the privacy of their own homes. The Wheat Board’s Soviet-style monopoly was more important.
But the fight against child pornography has Canada’s press in high dudgeon.
