Monday, March 09, 2015

Even Christy Clark Gets It.


British Columbia premier, Christy Clark, thinks Harper's new security legislation, Bill C-51, is dangerous.  Clark warns Canadians could come to regret the freedoms taken away by Harper's proposed legislation.

"We should be very careful in Canada, in a country where so many people have sacrificed their lives to preserve our freedoms, to make sure that we aren't -- in the effort to protect ourselves against unknown threats – really diminishing our personal freedoms," she said.

"We will regret that forever. When you give up personal freedoms, it's very hard to get them back."

Canada's privacy commissioner, Daniel Therrien, agrees with Bill C-51's intended goal to increase information-sharing between authorities, but stressed that the rights of innocent Canadians may be sacrificed in the name of intelligence-gathering.

"The bill would share with national security agencies potentially all of the information of all Canadians, including law-abiding citizens. And I think that goes too far," Therrien told Question Period.

The privacy commissioner was careful not to characterize Canada as a potential surveillance state, but wondered if this is "the kind of society we want to live in?"

6 comments:

Hugh said...

Good for her, standing up for BC.

The Mound of Sound said...

You're right. We can't fairly criticize her endless failings without giving her credit when she gets something right.

Norm said...

She's still a lousy Premier but she has got this right.

Dana said...

She's politicking.

She and her neo-Socred henchpeople will be eager to petition CSIS about BC citizens opposed to them.

Like everyone here.

CuJoYYC said...

No worries here. Prentice is installing two-way mirrors with recording devices everywhere across Alberta. They're dual purpose mirrors: blame and spy.

The Mound of Sound said...

Maybe Clark's opposition is based on the province not getting access to the good stuff.