Dear Editor:
Forgive me for not sharing the enthusiasm with which some of my fellow citizens are attacking Vic Toews and his Bill C-30.
I support his efforts to make an attempt and provide the police with a tool that is long overdue and may get us out of the rotary telephone era and into 2012.
The present firestorm reminds me of the time all airport workers were to be fingerprinted.
Then as now my response is: "it will prove I did not do it!" Yet, many of my co-workers went off the rails about having their human rights violated.
Let me relate an incident, which represents reality in Canada as I see it: When our car was broken into, I expected the RCMP to come and take fingerprints so that other impressions could be matched with the individual concerned. Instead they gave me an insurance claim number over the phone.
Some of my fellow travellers are paranoid enough to believe there is enough slack in the system for someone to listen in when I order a pizza!
How dumb does it get? Our law enforcement needs improved procedures and laws to match! Bill C-30 is but one of them.
Ziggy Eckardt, Burnaby
