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Samuelson-Glushko
Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic Clinique d'intérêt public et de politique d'internet du Canada Samuelson-Glushko ![]() |
Towards the end of 2010, the government introduced three complementary bills into the House of Commons with the aim of increasing the investigative powers of police:
With provisions reducing judicial scrutiny of surveillance activities and granting the police the power to obtain subscriber information from internet service providers (ISPs) without a warrant, the bills raised many privacy alarm bells. For example, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the provincial privacy commissioners collectively sent a letter to Public Safety, [4] one of the bill's sponsoring federal departments, expressing reservations about the proposed legislation.
However, when Parliament dissolved under a non-confidence motion in March 2010, none of the bills had yet made their way through Parliamentary debate. The bills died on the order paper.
Links:
[1] http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/403/Government/C-50/C-50_1/C-50_1.PDF
[2] http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/403/Government/C-51/C-51_1/C-51_1.PDF
[3] http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/403/Government/C-52/C-52_1/C-52_1.PDF
[4] http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2011/let_110309_e.cfm