A well-known First Nations activist and lawyer says she is being tracked by the federal government departments.
Pam Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawyer and professor at Ryerson University, told CTV’s Question Period that access-to-information documents show that she is being tracked by three federal government departments.
“I wrote an access to information request to CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), National Defence, the RCMP and Indian Affairs to determine whether or not they were following (or) surveilling me in any way and three out of the group all confirmed that they were,” she said.
Join the club. Virtually every Canadian is monitored by several different government departments at any given time. While I'm hardly delighted at the prospect, or reasonably assured that such scrutiny is either necessary or desirable, I'm also not terribly worried about it. How Orwellian a state do we have when it discloses, upon request, that it is monitoring you? If you press a bit further you can even find out how they are monitoring you. When you consider the routine civil rights abuses conducted by the RCMP and FBI during the Cold War this is sophomore hijinks by comparison.
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