The Twitter attack started on Wednesday morning. Now Ottawa is all atwitter with what appear to be details of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews's ugly divorce proceedings.

A user posting as @vikileaks30 spent much of the day posting bits and pieces of what are believed to be affidavits filed by Toews and his ex-wife.

The postings are intended to give Toews a taste of having his privacy invaded. The minister is currently pushing bill C-30, which would make Canadians' use of the Internet a more open book for law enforcement.

The bill has been criticized for going too far. Police would no longer need a warrant to grab information from Internet service providers.

Toews has not only defended his bill in the House of Commons but has seen fit to go on the attack. On Monday he said critics of the proposed legislation are standing "with the child pornographers."

It's become a tradition in the Republican party – oops, I mean Conservative party – to paint everything as black and white. You're with us or against us; no middle ground, no compromise. The good-versus-evil theme on Parliament Hill is starting to sound like George W. Bush is in charge.

While the alleged contents of affidavits are on Twitter for anyone to read, there's no way to confirm their authenticity. If they are accurate, they paint a picture of an unfaithful husband who ditched his wife and cut off financial support.

The tweets taking Toews to task continued Wednesday evening, and throw a number of the minister's own quotes back at him.

"Marriage is one of the cornerstones upon which our society has been built," says one tweet, attributing the words to "Vic Toews 7/24/2002."

The audience reading the anonymous tweets will likely grow and grow. Liberal MP Justin Trudeau tweeted about the situation to his 110,000 followers on Wednesday.

Mockery is a very effective tool when it comes to taking the powerful down a notch. Toews has suggested that the average Canadian has nothing to fear from bill C-30. Only the bad guys should be scared.

But Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian said every Canadian should be worried about centralized databases containing our private information. She said the federal government may promise to encrypt information, but "the bad guys are always one step ahead."

The fact that a Conservative bill is being called intrusive runs counter to everything the Harper government has done before.

The census was dumbed down and made voluntary because it invaded our privacy. The long-gun registry will be killed because our government doesn't want to collect information about its citizens' firearms.

But our computers appear to be fair game. A hint, a suspicion, a whim, and without a warrant, the police can start grabbing data.

Vic Toews doesn't deserve to have his private life made public. And neither do 30 million other Canadians.

Should the federal government rethink its online surrveillance bill? Do searches without warrants concern you?