As our MP, we want to know your opinion on this blatant violation of our privacy and the danger it poses to those thus betrayed. We were PROMISED even by the Liberals who foisted this atrocity on us, that our privacy would be protected.
We both know that is impossible with the countless number of people who have access to the database on a daily basis. We KNOW they are not all honest. One need only google "police charged" to know that. But when the data is DELIBERATELY and for an unbelievable reason (we are NOT "clients" since we have NO CHOICE in revealing our most private information under threat of jail) released to a third party, that is a violation of the law itself.
Not long before the abominable and dangerous C-68 was passed into law, all gun clubs received a pamphlet from the federal government asking us to advise members to NEVER reveal ownership of firearms to strangers OR ANYONE ON THE PHONE THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW! That was good advice, but the government has violated their very own important message countless times. Our own party included. This blatant violation of our right to privacy and property must stop. I want to know what our government is going to do about it. The decision of the "Privacy Commissioner" is unbelievable, outlandish, and unacceptable.
Don Klein
Secretary Valley Rifle Club.
Blatant invasion of privacy
The Windsor Star
February 6, 2010
Last fall, then-federal public safety minister Peter Van Loan said it was "offensive and inappropriate" that the RCMP had handed over the personal information of gun owners -- collected by the Canadian Firearms program -- to a polling agency.
Van Loan said gun owners' privacy rights had been abused and, as a result, he filed what seemed to be a well-founded complaint to federal privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
It turns out the RCMP gave a master CD containing the personal information of 37,495 licensees from the Canadian Firearms Database to the EKOS polling firm.
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