Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada’s spy agencies and police need “sweeping new powers” to fight Islamists and jihadists, and the worldwide movement that hates our open, tolerant and free society.
Harper’s Chicken Little act is getting tired. Time and time again we’ve been lied to about the war on terror, and there is no reason to suspect that this time we are being told the truth.
Canada’s security agencies have already been granted “sweeping new powers” twice: once after 9/11, and again after the Conservatives won a majority.
Harper himself must think they didn’t make a difference, otherwise he wouldn’t want more. But if they didn’t work the first time, why would anyone expect more of the same to be any better?
Again and again, we’re told some group poses a terrible risk, and it turns out to be a total bust:
- We were lied to about Osama bin Laden having Bond-villain-style fortresses in hollowed-out mountains in Afghanistan. (Yes, this was a thing).
- We were lied to about all the reasons to go to war in Iraq in 2003. We were lied to about Saddam Hussein having uranium, or weapons of mass destruction, links to al-Qaeda or 9/11.
- We were lied to when officials said the U.S. doesn’t torture.
- We were lied to when officials claimed that torture worked, or that it led to the discovery of Osama bin Laden.
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