Getting arrested does not equal going to jail. You can sue for emotional distress in the event this happens.
It DOES mean going to jail and having your constitutional rights violated. What it doesn't mean is being prosecuted, having any charges laid against you, or going to prison. There's a difference. It also means you could:
- Potentially lose your job
- Lose friends and loved ones
- Family could also become nervous around you
Also keep in mind that no, you can't sue, because it's the law. They're legally allowed to do that now that the bill has passed.
Even if you COULD sue, not everyone has enough money to prosecute. Especially considering the fact that you could very well lose your job because of it.
Your mentality of "If you didn't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about" is also incredibly harmful and furthers the idea that these kinds of bills are acceptable. This bill not only allows them to put you in jail without any evidence to convict you of a crime, but it also allows the Canadian equivalent of the NSA (CSIS and CSE) to collect mass amounts of private data on all citizens not only in Canada, but anywhere else in the world too. This is the equivalent of the NSA reading all of your emails, the files on your computer (without a warrant or consent from you) and not only gathering information on who you called, but the audio from the call itself.
These are things that are meant to be private and violating citizens privacy like this is absolutely unacceptable.
