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EmBee
Submitted on 2015/06/01 at 7:18 pm
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LM
Submitted on 2015/06/01 at 9:25 pm | In reply to EmBee.
@Embee – Thanks for bringing https://privacyplan.ca/ to our attention. I think as many of us as possible should write to this organization (and each of the organizations which have indicated that they support these views) and explain that we fully agree with their efforts (if that is how we feel) but that we will not be able to financially donate there until our issue is fully funded. |
From: Conclusion – Listen to Canadians in OpenMedia: “Canada’s Privacy Plan – A Crowdsourced Agenda for Tackling Canada’s Privacy Deficit”:
Behind the backs of their citizens, governments have been building surveillance tools unparalleled in their invasiveness, scope, and power. Our oversight mechanisms, designed for a different era, need to make sense in the 21st century. It’s remarkable that much of what we now know, we owe not to our official oversight bodies, but instead to a single NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
This project came in response to these revelations, and to the perfect storm of legislation being advanced by a government seemingly determined to sacrifice Canadians’ most basic human and democratic rights on the altar of an increasingly powerful and unaccountable security bureaucracy.
As an organization, participatory values are at the heart of everything OpenMedia does. We don’t just want citizens to have a seat at the table, we work to place citizens at the heart of decision-making. That’s why we’ve tried to reach out to the broadest possible number of Canadians to help shape this report. This open, participatory approach is all the more important given the government’s efforts to conceal the dramatic expansion of its surveillance capabilities from Canadians.
Canadians are clearly deeply concerned about their country’s continuing evolution toward out-of-control government surveillance. This is borne out both by our own crowdsourcing work, and by opinion surveys conducted independently.
“Canada’s Privacy Plan” (96 pages)
“Key Recommondations, Canada’s Privacy Plan” (4 pages)
Take Action:
We will protect your privacy, and keep you informed about this campaign and others. Find OpenMedia’s privacy policy here.
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Related, also read Lynne Swanson’s post at Maple Sandbox: C51 Gives CRA Right to Share Tax Info
Money Sense reports Your tax info at heightened risk.
Money Sense is not exactly what one could call left wing civil liberties fanatics. Yet they report:
The CRA can now share not only your home address, but all of your financial information within the government, without any form of consent or a warrant.
All the CRA needs is to believe “there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the information would be relevant to an investigation of whether the activity of any person may constitute threats to the security of Canada.”
What’s more, the CRA can distribute these private details “on its own initiative,” possibly spurring…a “wide-scale fishing expedition.”
A Ryerson University professor says the more people that have access to taxpayer information under Bill C-51, the higher the risk of leaks, hacks and other foul play. He also says:
The change in legislation is “unprecedented. It’s snooping and meddling of the worst kind.”
Of course, CRA will have far more information about U.S. persons than they will about other Canadians because of FATCA. So the snooping and risk to us is mammoth.
Are we suspects of a “threat to the security of Canada?” Who knows?
I think we are defenders of Canada. But, I think it’s safe to assume the government is following Sandbox and Brock and that they consider us threats.
This is one more huge reason why we must persevere in our fight for our rights. Please keep those donations to ADCS coming.
Hmmm. Do they consider ADCS a “threat to the security of Canada” for standing up for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
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Something else I think is related:
I made this comment yesterday:
But now I am somewhat buoyed regarding *dual citizenship* and ALLEGIANCE as I’ve found on the US Embassy in Ottawa site: http://canada.usembassy.gov/consular_services/dual-citizenship.html which says (emphasis mine)
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The U.S. Government acknowledges that dual nationality exists but does not encourage it as a matter of policy because of the problems it may cause. Claims of other countries on dual national U.S. citizens may conflict with U.S. law, and dual nationality may limit U.S. Government efforts to assist citizens abroad. The country where a dual national is located generally has a stronger claim to that person’s allegiance.…
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That shows me the disregard of this Canadian government for its citizens who are also US citizens or *duals* as we are now referred to as *US citizens who happen to reside in Canada*. That doesn’t sound like Canada cares a whit about my allegiance to Canada (as I chose to become a Canadian citizen) or that of my children (born in Calgary, AB, Canada).
I don’t like how many Canadian Bills shoved through Parliament work together in taking away our rights.
Do you?
Please stand up for the rights of all Canadians: http://www.adcs-adsc.ca/
I’ve just finished skimming through the report this group put together. It’s very well done and reminded me of Richardson and Kish reports. I think this is great that they are bringing privacy to the fore. Privacy DOES matter and anyone who has been FATCA’d or is in fear of being FATCA’d is on board the Don’t Mess With My Privacy Rights train.
It’s all connected…Bill C-51 and Bill C-31 and the US Patriot Act/Freedom Act. All taking away our freedom and privacy rights. I looked at the summary on https://privacyplan.ca/. It seems there is a lot of concern among Canadians about loss of freedom and privacy in regard to Bill C-51. Hopefully this will make a connection to the issue of FATCA and the IGA in Canada as well.
RE: ” Send this Crowdsourced Action Plan to your Senators”…I sent my information to email the Privacy Plan on to my Senators. My donations will continue to go to ADCS until it is fully funded before I can consider donating to this new action plan.
An interesting Michael Geist article found via OpenMedia (comments allowed):
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/06/why-canadians-have-good-reason-to-be-wary-of-the-tpp/
I sent the Action Plan (aka antidote to Bill C-51) to the Senators via OpenMedia and when I got a confirmation via e-mail from David Christopher I used it as an opportunity to thank OpenMedia and let him know about ADCS. Can’t hurt. I see the Action Plan and ADCS as being quite compatible.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c-51-could-trigger-ndp-liberal-coalition-conservative-critics-warn-1.3096534
C-51 could trigger NDP-Liberal coalition, conservative critics warn
Open letter asks PM: ‘Do you really want to live in a C-51 Canada that you don’t govern?’
@PatCanadian
Speaking of the so-called USA FREEDOM Act, our friend Sovereign Man has some choice words to say about it:
@Deckard1138
Thanks for referring me to SovereignMan.com. It looks like this website covers a number of topics of great interest to me, in addition to the USA “Freedom” Act.
I was contacted by email from privacyplan.ca by Stephen Christopher. It included a request for a donation. I declined to donate and explained my commitment to ADCS, forwarding some information about our cause. Hopefully they will get the connection.
C-51 VOTE (by Senate) Delayed until Tuesday (June 9th).
There was many mentions in the debate, which is still on-going, stating they are receiving hundreds even thousands of emails from Canadians stating say No to the Bill! Awesome work guys keep it up they are listening!
So there is still time to let Senators know (I got back from today’s appointments too late to post this one to Albertans:
Need even more reason to call Senator(s) from your province?
A petition that misses the when actual second-class citizenship went into effect — that was July 1, 2014 — for one million Canadians, their spouses, their children, their business partners, deemed US Persons, second-class to any other Canadian, no matter where they were born or the national origin of their parents. This announcement is actually a second installment of second-class citizenship for specified Canadians.
https://www.change.org/p/hon-chris-alexander-pc-mp-canadian-government-stop-bill-c-24-don-t-turn-millions-of-us-into-second-class-canadian-citizens/u/11002985?tk=PCuRxrwn22nCZ2rcnf9cnJs3kM5HFw7CAf8IAsBbQ3s&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email
@ calgary411
I fired off an e-mail to Sen. Black urging him to vote NO on Bill C-51 (very brief with the hope that he actually reads it). As for Blaney and his “our fellow Americans”. OUR FELLOW AMERICANS? He must know that Harper is just itching to be hitching Canada up to the North American Union wagon.
Great, EmBee — I am in the process as well.
What a slip of the tongue (OR NOT) — OUR FELLOW AMERICANS. Or would he (I don’t think so) be referring to all of us the Conservative government deems *US citizens who happen to reside in Canada*?
Let’s not have that North American Union without full buy-in from all Canadians and, if it happens, hopefully after I’m gone from this earth.
Hey, as much as I’d love to slam Steven Blaney for this horrible choice of words, I really must defend him insofar as his English really isn’t 100%. I’ve made some slip-ups before in both French and English. This being said…..vote ABC in the next election. I want my Canada back.
Most likely an UNFORTUNATE slip of the tongue, PierreD. Moi aussi.
@PierreD.
Didn’t bother me one bit: Lambasted his ass.
Wildlife Photog @WildlifeFotog70 20s20 seconds ago
@MinStevenBlaney There is no “our Fellow Americans”. We are Canadians, NOT American! In Canada. If you feel that way, Move to the USA!!!
What Harper stands for ala Bill C-51 (and he isn’t standing on guard for thee):
(links removed)
We wouldn’t have IBS if it was up to Harper and the Cons;
so,
https://stopc51.ca/about-c51
support the ADCS challenge to
Sorry Admins – my links above worked pasted into my browser, but don’t work as links from my post above. Can you remove them?
apologies,
I was trying to post a link to the ‘Protest too much’ (September 18, 2014) cartoon at http://www.thevillageatheist.com/home/harpertoons and also the cartoon 1984 revisited (April 1, 2015).
(The https://stopc51.ca/about-c51 works fine).
Senate passes sweeping anti-terror bill, C-51
Over to Rocco Galati: http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/06/09/news/bill-c-51-passed-senate-despite-widespread-public-opposition
Another sad day for Canada. I wonder if Ruth and I would have been arrested for our little two person anti-FATCA protest a couple years ago, had Bill C-51 been passed then? I know I would have thought more than twice about doing it, if it had – and therein lies the problem. We will all be more afraid of our own government now, which is slowly but surely taking away our liberties all in the name of ‘keeping us protected from terrorists’. Kind of like FATCA, from the US government perspective, is all about protecting Americans collective tax monies from the ‘tax cheats who don’t pay their fair share’. And the Canadian FATCA IGA is all about protecting Canadians from the ‘Americans living in Canada’ who don’t pay their fair share to the United States of Arrogance for the privilege of having been born on US soil. This is all getting so unreal. Bring TPP into the mix, and it starts to look hopeless. Once those civil liberties are gone it is next to impossible to get them back – think of all we had to go through to get them in the first place.
Six things protestors need to know about Bill C-51.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/03/11/C-51-Six-Things-To-Know/
@calgary411, @WhiteKat
I was never that worried about terrorists in Canada…. I was more worried about our so call paranoid gov’t… which is sad to say…. has proven to me what a bunch of frigging traitors they are… over & over… When did our gov’t become a gov’t who doesn’t listen to their citizens…. who they are suppose to represent & protect… We need to clean house… we can’t go on like this… our gov’t is turning into something I don’t want…
This July 1st, I am going to go hide under a rock – although I haven’t figured out what to say to the out of town company who invited themselves to visit my family in our nation’s capital on Canada Day to celebrate our wonderful country. I guess instead of hiding under a rock, I will be forced to endure the party, and end up with another post-celebratory hang over – why break my new Canada Day tradition?
@US_Foreign_Person,
re: “I was never that worried about terrorists in Canada ”
Nor I, but this guy is terrifying:
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1825/7700/original.jpg
We here know that Bill C-31 (2014) was the first to define second-class Canadian citizenship and Bill C-24 makes the citizenship for many of us conditional and taking away protections.
June 20, 2015, Press for Truth: “Rocco Galati Is Preparing A Court Challenge Against Bill C-24 “
Just stumbled across this paper (see below) which presents a defence against those who question why privacy rights are important by using the “nothing to hide” rationale :
“….I argue that the nothing to hide argument—even in its strongest form—stems from certain faulty assumptions about privacy and its value. The problem, in short, is not with finding an answer to the question: “If you’ve got nothing to hide, then what do you have to fear?” The problem is in the very question itself….”
from;
Solove, Daniel J., ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy. San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 745, 2007; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 289. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=998565