> Canadian here. I agree completely with the CBC. This is one of the least interesting non-stories I have seen in years. By letting the National Post pick up t

> Canadian here. I agree completely with the CBC. This is one of the least interesting non-stories I have seen in years. By letting the National Post pick up the story, they let the National Post set the tone of the story. The National Post decided to focus most of their attention on the privacy implications of the government purchasing the data. They decided to ignore the privacy implications of private entities collecting and reselling the data. While they did mention why the government purchased the data, they virtually ignore how it was being used. I'm not going to claim that the CBC would have handled the story any better. Quite frankly, CBC's research is often shoddy and agenda driven. Yet it would likely have been enough to fill in some of the gaping holes in the National Post story. (On second thought, the National Post story is more of an opinion piece. Perhaps a quarter of the article can be described as news.)