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| Vic Toews in the Public Lens |
Vic Toews, Stephen Harper’s Minister of Public
Safety and Mennonite-heritage Canadian politician, has recently generated a bit
of a public debate – one pertaining directly to the Postmodern experience in
the control and manipulation of the digital universe.
The controversy stems from three character trends of the Post-modern
identity experience – the perceived lack of individual privacy, the increasing atmosphere
of George Orwell’s Big Brother security that sees all,
knows all and processes all, and the rapid, irrevocable, transmission of
information – any and all information, no matter how sensitive, no matter how
private, no matter how truthful.
In a turn-of-events that many Canadians are interpreting as well
deserved comeuppance, Canada’s own potential Big Brother found the personal
details of his somewhat messy divorce broadcast across the country for all to
maul through and judge.
