An Open Letter to CSIS

Dear CSIS

Since you are monitoring my smartphone and my computer via metadata and email as part of a Canadian security act, it's your obligation to keep me safe from harm.

I know you know where I live. The purpose of Big Brother is not just to spy on me to protect national security; it's also to protect each citizen who submits to such scrutiny from harm.

This is what Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms legally obligates the Government of Canada to do: the right to life, liberty, and security of the person. As part of the Canadian government, that too is part of your mandate.

That's what we pay our taxes for.

Our Home and Native Land: The Canadian Human Rights Bill

This is what the Canadian Charter of Freedom and Rights guarantees all citizens in Canada:

• the right to life;
  
• the protection against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
  
• the protection against slavery;
  
• the protection against imprisonment for debt;
  
• the protection against acts made retroactively into crimes;
  
• the right of every individual to be recognized as a person under law;
  
• the freedoms of thought, conscience and religion.
  

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Reference:
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms