BCCLA calling on federal Public Safety Minister to retract controversial comments

The BC Civil Liberties Association has sent a letter to Canada’s Public Safety Minister after he made some highly controversial comments. 

BCCLA President Robert Holmes wants Vic Toews to retract comments saying critics of a Tory bill are aligning themselves with child pornographers. 

Holmes says the bill allows for the government to snoop on Canadians’ internet habits, and even privacy commissioners are opposed. 

“For the Minister to lump them in with child pornographers I mean you just have to ask him to give his head a shake because for him to try and do that kind of over the top thing is really the kind of extravagance that Canadians are sick and tired off then they look at serious matters.” 

Holmes says when it was the long gun registry or the long form census, the government sold themselves as protecting privacy.

The Conservative Government will table the telecommunications bill in the House of Commons today.

CKNW Vancouver News

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