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Why Did the Liberals Vote For Bill C-13 After Fiercely Opposing It?

January 25, 2015

Why Did the Liberals Vote For Bill C-13 After Fiercely Opposing It?

When I was 16, I was goofing off in math class with a friend. I was probably wearing my At the Drive In t-shirt, my most prized possession and potent signifier of my burgeoning avant-garde taste in art. Wasting time in math class seemed a great way to show off my rejection of mainstream conventions and the constant pressure from the world to “improve myself.”

At some point my friend took off somewhere, no doubt expressing his irrepressible independence, and my math teacher, Mr. Cort, took the vacant seat. Mr. Cort was younger than the other teachers and the only person familiar with the band emblazoned on my t-shirt, so I had a certain respect for him, if not his subject matter.

He asked me what was up with my perfunctory performance in his class. “I’m a bit disappointed,” he said “I know you’re much smarter than this and you could do a lot better if you’d stop fooling around.”

I won’t pretend I transformed into an A student in math overnight, or at all, but I definitely spent less time gabbing with my rebellious neighbors after that. And now that I’m in the dotage of my early thirties, I can identify with that sense of being let down by someone from whom you expected better. And I’m feeling it right now.

Liberals, we need to talk. You see, you guys have justifiably made a lot of noise about the ways that the Conservatives’ reckless online spying Bill C-13 would violate the privacy of Canadians. Like us, you were worried that the Bill, which provides legal immunity for telecoms to hand over our private data without a warrant, represents afundamental upheaval of our constitutionally guaranteed rights to privacy.

For example, here’s what your spokesman Sean Casey MP said during a key House of Commons committee debate:

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