Comment by derefr
1 year ago
If you worry that party B will be just as bad as party A in your measure of concern, then why are you using partisan language to describe your concern in the first place?
Privacy seems pretty orthogonal to partisan politics to me — it's not something that appears on any party's platform, nor is it something that any voter I know of has ever said is their highest concern for choosing an MP to elect (and how could it be, if candidates aren't even expected to hold public positions on the issue?)
Because the Liberals are the ones that have fucked up the last 9 years. The PCs fucked it up under Stephen Harper, the most anti-Canadian PM in history until Justin Trudeau. I could have tolerated his sickening virtue signaling but his use of the War Measures Act is the most fascist anti-Canadian act in history and I will never forgive him.
The underlying problem is that every government gets lobbied by special interest groups and it has a significant impact on policies and legislation. That's exactly what's happening here. A lobbying organization is trying to convince politicians we need this legislation and the underlying motive is that the people funding the lobbying group are going to be the ones selling the solutions needed to comply with the law.