Back in the late 1970's, we Canadians had a thing called the McDonald Commision. It was an investigation into our National Police Force (RCMP) illegal activities...planting evidence, blowing up mailboxes to discredit the FLQ (a Quebec Separatist group) black ops really in the late 1960's and early '70's.

We had a national poll some 10 years ago asking Canadians to name their favourite Canadian.

MP Tommy Douglas, he who brought in universal health care and Unemployment Insurance and a slew of social ills starting in the 1930's, were brought into the limelight and in many cases solutions were enacted into law.

The RCMP thing? Turns out he was the most heavily surveilled Canadian in our history.

So, to whom were the Mounties, once a sacred icon, to answer for this egregious excess?

The McDonald commission recommended that Heads should roll and that the domestic and foreign desks be separated.

CSIS (Similar to the CIA) was set up and in the confusion, some would say internal if not internecine warfare, Sikh separatists operating in British Columbia somehow managed to plant bombs on an Air India jet and 329 souls fell into the Atlantic Ocean some hundreds of miles off the coast of Ireland.

So, where is Canada today?

Under Prime Minister Harper, billions flowed into CSIS' coiffers and when Julian Assange and Wikileaks released all that data which pointed out that the Obama Gov't was illegally spying on its citizens, as was Canada, well, I'd like to think such information was the icing on the cake which brought that oil-soaked bastard Harper down.

But, the $1 Billion dollar building, finally occupied in 2013, is still standing and data still gathering and so dear Tin-Foiled Togue-wearing Penguin, I'd say you've got a 3.14 seconds head start before you, like the rest of us, become part of the pi.