CBC is reporting that the driver had his passport suspended by the government before any of this happened and before he committed any crime.
Which raises a few questions we should all be very concerned about.
How much spying is necessary to find that he had 'plans' to go join ISIS or some other organization?
What is the process in which Canadians' passports can be suspended for suspected prospective crimes?
As for the terrorism charge, these were soldiers, not civilians, so technically its not terrorism.
Its fucked up, premeditated murder, but not terrorism.
And finally, is this a crime in which the suspect was mad at Harper's use of the PMO's office to suspend his passport? I hear the new legislation that allows citizenship to be suspended has those decisions going through the PMO's office, correct me if I'm wrong. Does that mean suspension of passports goes through the RCMP and PMO as well?
And really, finally, we here should also be concerned. When C-36 goes through this government, with its already established ability to spy on citizens email, phone and web browsing, that means that should they decide to target someone for some reason we don't know about, reviews and presence on this board could come back to haunt us.
Now that the con's have been caught using the CRA to target environmental groups that disagree with them, and using facebook posts to boot people out of their own campaigns, should they decide to target someone for some other issue they don't agree with (protesting bombing ISIS, protesting C-36, protesting lack of climate change programs, protesting con's silencing of science), should you come under their microscope for any other issue they could also go looking here for other evidence. That's a bit paranoid, but its also not at all unrealistic given Harper's history.
I'm way more worried about what Harper is doing to this country then some wingnut who wants to go leave Canada and die in a fight that has nothing to do with us.
Harper should have just let him go.
Which raises a few questions we should all be very concerned about.
How much spying is necessary to find that he had 'plans' to go join ISIS or some other organization?
What is the process in which Canadians' passports can be suspended for suspected prospective crimes?
As for the terrorism charge, these were soldiers, not civilians, so technically its not terrorism.
Its fucked up, premeditated murder, but not terrorism.
And finally, is this a crime in which the suspect was mad at Harper's use of the PMO's office to suspend his passport? I hear the new legislation that allows citizenship to be suspended has those decisions going through the PMO's office, correct me if I'm wrong. Does that mean suspension of passports goes through the RCMP and PMO as well?
And really, finally, we here should also be concerned. When C-36 goes through this government, with its already established ability to spy on citizens email, phone and web browsing, that means that should they decide to target someone for some reason we don't know about, reviews and presence on this board could come back to haunt us.
Now that the con's have been caught using the CRA to target environmental groups that disagree with them, and using facebook posts to boot people out of their own campaigns, should they decide to target someone for some other issue they don't agree with (protesting bombing ISIS, protesting C-36, protesting lack of climate change programs, protesting con's silencing of science), should you come under their microscope for any other issue they could also go looking here for other evidence. That's a bit paranoid, but its also not at all unrealistic given Harper's history.
I'm way more worried about what Harper is doing to this country then some wingnut who wants to go leave Canada and die in a fight that has nothing to do with us.
Harper should have just let him go.