It’s been a really, really bad week for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

Once Rick Mercer rants, you’re done in this country.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Not all of that is true, by the way.

But I’m happy to see the normally stupefied and inert Canadian public pay attention to this issue.

I’ve recently used the internet in totalitarian police States like China and Italy. We don’t want that here.

The right wing ‘tough on crime’ agenda does not work. They need to focus on eliminating the causes of crime.

(via Geist)