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For the record, I do not think that your concerns about personal safety from terrorist attacks are more important than mine about *sigh* searching for pornography unconcerned of anyone finding out about my immoral actions.

So you think its more important to have freedom of rights, then protection of life?

Not that we are necessarily being threatened, but even so, I still believe security is more important then our freedom to access the internet without having the government watching us.

Although the manner in which they watch us is up for debate.

I think that you are being unreasonable in assuming that the invasion of privacy which the government is pursuing will in fact stop terrorist attacks from occuring. Also I think you are undervaluing what it means to live in a free society, instead desiring to live in a "secure" society.

It was just a thought.

I desire to live in both a secure and free society. You're taking this as if the government is restricting our freedom here. They may restrict our "privacy" but not our freedom.

I would hope that at the very least you would demand absolute transparency from the government regarding this program if they were to monitor internet activities of innocent citizens. But that could inadvertently help the terrorists avoid being caught so do we now allow the government to monitor us secretly?

Of course. They already moniter child porn activities, what holds them back from monitering terrorist activities? After the arrest of the 18 suspected terrorists in Toronto, I think it should hit home with more people that Canada deals with the problem as well.

There will never be an end to the calls for more power from law enforcement agencies because they probably would allow those agencies to do their job better, we do have a responsibility however, to resist these calls and maintain the freedoms that made Canada a great place to live in the first place.

So we should allow the idea of "freedom" to prevent out agencies of protecting "our" lives? Seems wierd that you value your idea of freedom over the very thing that protects it.

Passing this bill would be a mistake.

Passing "this" bill would be a mistake, yes. I think it gives the government TOO MUCH power to moniter our activities. But I also believe that the government should be able to do anything within its power to prevent a terrorist attack.