Trudeau’s Online Speech Monitoring

In Canada, Justin Trudeau's government seems to keep getting mired in ever more allegations of mass surveillance and spying on the population, the latest being a report about contracts designed to monitor social media.

It's another case of "not new news" - this time, also because of the actual chronology of it all.

Although it's only now coming to light, Canadian press reports allege that Trudeau embarked on the policy of spending tax money in order to "better surveil" the country's general population - pretty much since he took office.

According to this, the Privy Council Office (PCO) was in the business of giving contracts to a company called Meltwater in 2014 for the first time - that one cost $49,437 taxpayer, Canadian dollars.

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