This week, Industry Minister James Moore quietly tabled a new Digital Privacy Act in the Senate. The proposed legislation should safeguard Canadians’ privacy online but sadly does not. The proposal is likely to reinforce the feeling that the Conservatives are just bad on privacy issues despite privacy’s increasing importance to daily life and our digital economy.

Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for often terrible cell phone service.

Canada has a remarkably vibrant social media community. According to media expert Michael Geist, we have the...