[ToadBrother]

Seems our Minister of Public Safety, to justify increasing police powers, and further erode judicial oversight, outright lied. He claimed that a kidnapping case in Vancouver earlier this year showed the problems, claiming the police had to wait 36 hours to get a warrant so they could go to an ISP to get a customer name and address. Except, of course, that the cops didn't, and didn't in fact use the Internet at all.

http://www.michaelge.../view/4424/135/

[Keepitsimple]

ToadBrother, on Oct 4 2009, 12:19 PM, said:

Seems our Minister of Public Safety, to justify increasing police powers, and further erode judicial oversight, outright lied. He claimed that a kidnapping case in Vancouver earlier this year showed the problems, claiming the police had to wait 36 hours to get a warrant so they could go to an ISP to get a customer name and address. Except, of course, that the cops didn't, and didn't in fact use the Internet at all.

http://www.michaelge.../view/4424/135/

Who the heck is Michael Geist. Do you have a link to an actual media story?

[jdobbin]

Keepitsimple, on Oct 4 2009, 03:23 PM, said:

Who the heck is Michael Geist. Do you have a link to an actual media story?

He is a university professor and copyright expert responsible for torpedoing Harper's last effort on copyright law. He found out they plagiarized a lot of the info from U.S. sources.