From CTV News:

CTVNews.ca Staff

Date: Mon. Feb. 20 2012 11:35 AM ET

The hacker group Anonymous is demanding Public Safety Minister Vic Toews kill the Internet surveillance bill and resign or it will release "information" during what it calls "Operation White North."

Two videos posted to YouTube feature a masked man and voice-overs that condemn the proposed Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act (Bill C-30).

"All this legislation does is give your corrupted government more power to control its citizens," a synthesized voice says in one of the videos still posted to the site Monday.

"We know all about you, Mr. Toews, and during Operation White North we will release what we have unless you scrap this bill," it states.

The RCMP has been called in to investigate "serious threats" against Toews as controversy swirls around the legislation.

In an open letter to his Manitoba constituents distributed over the weekend, Toews said the threats have been "referred to the police for investigation."

The "personal attacks, criminal acts and threats of future criminal acts against me" won't prevent him from carrying out his parliamentary duties, the minister wrote.

"Any further criminal activity or threats of criminal activity against me or my family will also be referred to the police," Toews concluded.

Toews spokesman Mike Patton confirmed in an email to the media that police are looking into the threats.

"Threatening communications have been directed at the minister," he wrote without elaborating on what they entail. "These incidents have been reported to the proper authorities."

In its current form, the bill would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to allow access to private data without a warrant. It would also permit the duplication of that data without oversight or appeal.

Toews said during debate in the House last week that anyone who opposed the law was supporting child pornographers. He has since backed away from that comment.

But the contentious statement did prompt the creation of an anonymous Twitter account "@Vikileaks30" that published details of Toews' divorce, family and his spending as an MP.

The Conservatives accused the NDP of operating the Twitter feed, something the party has denied.

In his letter Toews went on to call the personal attacks against him futile, because they are based on records from his divorce proceedings, which are open to the public.

He went on to say that the breakdown of his previous marriage is something he is personally accountable for, "but that accountability is not something I owe to the public generally or to my political opponents in particular."

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