I opened up my mail this week to see a flyer from the Canadian Conservative Government via our MP Stockwell Day. The front of the flyer is shown above. There is a quote on the back as follows:

“This Government is following through on its commitment to give police the tools they need to better protect Canadians by stopping identity-theft activity before the damage is done.” - Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice

According to the flip side, the Canadian Conservative Government is putting forward tough new laws to prevent identity theft, to compensate victims, and to put identity thieves behind bars. I am supposed to cut out the bottom half of this flyer and return it with the answer to this question as “Yes” or “No”:

“Do you support the Conservative Government’s tougher laws against identity theft?”

Sounds great - proactive, right? I have a problem with it though. There is no information about what these laws are, what they do, or where I can learn about them. No website, nothing. I have absolutely no idea to which law the flyer refers.

So, if a member of the Conservative Government would like to fill the public in on which of the multiple identity theft bills before Parliament they are referring to, I’d be happy to answer their survey.

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