Bill C-30

13. Bill C-30 is proposed legislation that would give police and intelligence agencies new powers to access Canadians' electronic communications and allow telecomunications to hand over private data to the government without a warrant.  Do you agree that the Canadian Government should be allowed to "spy" on Canadians if it means stopping child pornography offenders? Where should the government draw the line?

I have to respond to this question by asking another: what does Facebook do with our data right now?  Facebook has played a pivotal role in catching criminals by seeing where people have checked in, what they've searched on the internet, and what they're posting to their friends.  If Facebook can track all of our data, why shouldn't the government be allowed to?  Our generation has been tainted by violent video games and always being exposed to the bad in the world through the news- perhaps knowing that the government is always capable of watching you will scare people with sadistic thoughts out fulfilling their sickening fantasies.  

Bill C-30 doesn't seem like it will stop any websites from running as SOPA or PIPA would, however would monitor the searches of everyone and simply red flag any group of searches that seem out of the ordinary and use this as a method of catching criminals.  So long as websites such as YouTube are not shut down, I feel as though Bill C-30 will actually create a safer environment in Canada.  Unless your idea of leisure is breaking the law, this bill shouldn't do any harm to you.