Semptember 11, 2014

Written Assignment Part I:

Annotated Bibliography
Police State Canada
Spies on Own Citizens

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CAN190BA
The Canadian Political System
Seneca College, Newnham Campus
Financial Services Client Services
Marc Menard
Dixon Giang
037998135

Thesis:
Canada spying upon their own citizens is tyrannical and needs to be ceased.

Annotated Bibliography:
Jones, Keith. "Police State Canada: Communications Security Establishment Canada
(CSEC) Runs Massive Domestic Spying Program." Global Research. N.p., n.d. Web.
21 Sept. 2014. http://www.globalresearch.ca/police-state-canada-communicationssecurity-establishment-canada-csec-runs-massive-domestic-spyingprogram/5339250
This article examines the Canadian espionage agency known as
Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) which had the
authority since 2005 to collect electronic metadata (location and telephone
number of phone calls, e-mails, text messages, Internet visits) of Canadians,
authorized by Defence Minister Bill Graham. In Late 2011, new Defence
Minister Peter MacKay renewed the mining of this electronic metadata.
MacKay denies violating constitutional prohibitions on warrantless
surveillance of the communications of Canadians by drawing the distinction
that Metadata is information associated with a telecommunication
And not a communication. CSEC can rapidly build up detailed profiles of
targeted individuals and groups using metadata, including identifying
everything from their associates, to where they work, bank, and shop, and
what websites they visit.

Ismi, Asad. "Canada Spies on Its Own Citizens." Global Research. N.p., n.d. Web. 21
Sept. 2014. http://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-spies-on-it-own-ctizens/5359271
This article examines the collaboration between USAs National Security
Agency (NSA) and its Canadian counterpart, CSEC. The author points out
how the two agencies have had close relations for more than six decades and
share intelligence on each others citizens. Both spy on their own citizens as
well as on each others nationals, and pass this information on to each other,
thereby circumventing any legal restrictions on domestic surveillance. While
justifying its metadata spying, the Canadian government denies that CSEC
has access to the NSAs PRISM Program and has been using it as a means of
looking at Canadians communications. PRISM allows the NSA to gain access
to the servers of Microsoft, Apple, Google, AOL, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo,
PalTalk, and Facebook, thereby turning the Internet into a colossal spying
system. This official Canadian denial cannot be taken seriously, given that the
NSA and CSEC are very close partners and have been sharing intelligence for
more than six decades. The author also correctly points out how the Harper
government is well on its way to turning Canada into a police state in which
civil liberties are openly violated.

Weston, Greg, Glenn Greenwald, and Ryan Gallagher. "CSEC Used Airport Wi-Fi to
Track Canadian Travellers: Edward Snowden Documents."CBCnews. CBC/Radio
Canada, 31 Jan. 2014. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellersedward-snowden-documents-1.2517881
This article explains how the CBC obtained a top secret document from NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden, highlighting that CSEC used Wifi information
at a Canadian airports to track the wireless devices of ordinary airline
passengers for 2weeks after they left the terminal. The monitoring continued
after they -and their wireless devices- showed up in other Wi-Fi "hot spots" in
cities across Canada and even at U.S. airports. Ontario's privacy
commissioner Ann Cavoukian says she is "blown away" by the revelations. "I
mean that could have been me at the airport walking around This
resembles the activities of a totalitarian state, not a free and open society."

"Surveillance Agency Admits It 'Incidentally' Spies On Us." The Huffington Post. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/07/csec-spying-canada_n_4555873.html
This article shows how CSEC admitted that they may incidentally spy on
Canadians on their website. The agency states that In the course of
targeting foreign entities outside Canada in an interconnected and highly
networked world, it is possible that we may incidentally intercept Canadian
communications or information."