The opposition to Bill C-51 continues to rise... Or should I say support for the bill continues to fall, starting at an 82 per cent approval rating down to 38 per cent, once the truth about the content and scope of the bill surfaced.

Opposition has come from a number of unions to the Assembly of First Nations to Margaret Atwood and Sarah Harmer.

Bill C-51 -- also called the Anti-Terrorism Bill -- will do more to terrorize activists (with special concern for Indigenous Rights Activism) than actual bonifide terrorists.

Sometimes debate in the House of Commons becomes personal.

On Wednesday night, the House of Commons passed the government's anti-terrorism law, Bill C-51, with a few small amendments.

Both the ruling Conservatives and the Liberals voted in favour, although the latter have vigorously opposed a great many of the Bill's key provisions.

Nobody keeps this sort of record, but one could probably safely say that we have never before seen the likes of this in the Canadian Parliament: a party opposing a bill, root and branch, and then voting for it.

The Liberals say they did it because they think a small number of C-51's provisions are salutary.