Global: Canada’s new anti-privacy law - the next great threat to free speech

Yikes. Article by Anna Mehler Paperny for Global Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his government’s new counter-terror bill with dire warnings about the threats facing Canada from radical, freedom-hating groups on the other side of the world. “A great evil has been descending on our world,” he said in Richmond Hill on Friday.

And Harper introduced Bill C-51, a sweeping piece of legislation that covers everything from what you’re allowed to say and write to who can board a plane, what happens to your tax information and how long you can be detained without charge, he cited fatal attacks last fall in Ottawa and St. Jean Sur Richelieu.

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