Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail

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With a federal election in its home stretch, Canada's chiefs of police have issued a wish list of investigative powers they are hoping that the country's next prime minister can deliver — everything from allowing them to search Canadians' mail, to pulling back the curtain on anonymity online.

But one of the most controversial requests that the cop bosses are making involves how they go about identifying anonymous users online.

The resolution, adopted at a recent conference in Quebec City, is calling on Ottawa to introduce a database that gives police the power to strip Canadians' of their anonymity online.

As Motherboard reported last week, the proposal is a work-around for a 2014 Supreme Court decision that put an end to warrantless requests from police to Canada's telecommunications companies, seeking to pair users' IP addresses to their names, addresses, and phone numbers.

The resolution calls for "the creation of a reasonable law designed to specifically provide law enforcement the ability to obtain, in real-time or near real-time, basic subscriber information (BSI) from telecommunications providers."

Halifax-based privacy lawyer David Fraser calls the proposal "quite troubling."

Basically, they want to do a full-on exposure of trolls.
They got some police captain logging into some forum about cars and he got into some kind of beef about Star Wars vs. Star Trek with a troll, and he got offended for being called gay, and now with this legislation, he could log back in, find that person's address, then go to his house and vandalize his front door with Star Wars stuff.
Now, it would highly useful for me to go to Canada, log into the coli and find out who all the legit trolls are, fake females and the such are. Go back to US, log in and have a big "exposal" thread. Of course, this would backfire as some Canadian could post my info.