1. Current Issues Affecting Our Rights
Freedom of Speech
Right to Privacy
Bill C-30

2. What is going on?
Conservative MP Vic Toews ( Taves) put forward a bill C-30 that would require internet Service provides to record all internet usage ( including searches, websites, even online banking information) of all their customers. This information then could be provided to the police at any time without a warrant.

3. Bill C-30: Protecting Children from Internet Predators Section 17

4. What Vic Said
Asked in the House of Commons about the coming bill, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told a Liberal MP he could either stand with the government or “with the child pornographers” prowling online.

5. Other MPs reaction
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has warned against simply resurrecting a trio of previous federal bills to expand surveillance powers, citing several shortcomings. Of particular concern to the privacy commissioner are provisions that would allow authorities access to Internet subscriber information without first getting a court’s go-ahead.
“Apparently if you care about civil liberties in this country you obviously side with child pornographers, murderers,” said Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. “You’re the worst form of scum if you believe the charter’s an important instrument for the rule of law in this country. I’m horrified by this kind of rhetoric. It demeans us all.”
New Democrat MP Peter Julian accused the government of asking people to make “absurd choices.” “They simply do not have any credibility when it comes to putting in place a justice system that actually protects Canadians.”

6. Rick Mercer

7. Public Reaction
A person set up a twitter account, tweeting details of personal details about Vic including his messy divorce
Anonymous has released a public video about what is happening.

8. Anonymous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1--68kzYvw
The public is not happy

9. What is on the line?
Essentially our privacy and right to do things without the government watching our every action.
In the Charter of Rights, we are given certain freedoms and if this bill were to pass, these freedoms would be limited.