Yup: excessive enthusiasm and pilpul don't make a good mixture.
--dave
[Hmmn, I'm thinking red/green/refactor may be something legal draftsmen may want to investigate. The conviction was RED, this is GREEN, a good case before a superior court would be the REFACTOR]
We used to have four parties,
Left Left-Center Right-center Right
NDP Liberal Conservative Reform
plus a Quebec party, plus some oddballs.
We used to get lots of debate, and some very different suggestions from the NDP and Reform, which tended to keep the debate healthy.
Now we have Reform, renamed as the "Conservatives", a rump of the Liberals, and a invigorated NDP. The latter two split the left-center vote, the Reform party wins, and the policies look remarkably homogenized.
Bummer!
On April 8, 2004, the European Court of Justice – the highest court in the world’s largest economy – declared Data Retention to be an excusable violation of fundamental human rights. The court invalidated the entire directive (“EU federal law”) retroactively, making it have never existed. (courtesy Ricvk Falkvinge, https://www.privateinternetacc...
The EU and Canadian constitutions are sort of vaguely similar, so one can likely make the point that, even if the telcos are free to disclose, they're not allowed to keep much of the data the security services would want them to.
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