Canada's response to secret police Bill C-51 is unprecedented.

Since launching the Bill in late January, the new law has steadily fallen out of favour with Canadians.

It's not hard to understand why. C-51 would recklessly undermine our privacy rights, allowing CSIS to act like a secret police force. The bill is so vaguely worded that it could censor free expression, forcing the takedown of online content and silencing critics of government policy.

We're going to make sure this law gets scrapped and let the government know once and for all that we won’t stand for mass, indiscriminate spying.

When I was 16, I was goofing off in math class with a friend. I was probably wearing my At the Drive In t-shirt, my most prized possession and potent signifier of my burgeoning avant-garde taste in art. Wasting time in math class seemed a great way to show off my rejection of mainstream conventions and the constant pressure from the world to “improve myself.”

At some point my friend took off somewhere, no doubt expressing his irrepressible independence, and my math teacher, Mr. Cort, took the vacant seat. Mr. Cort was younger than the other teachers and the only person familiar with the band emblazoned on my t-shirt, so I had a certain respect for him, if not his subject matter.