International considerations (create the legislative framework necessary for Canada to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime and the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and
Xenophobic Nature Committed through Computer Systems)
The campaign leading up to the vote was bitter at times, much opposition to the proposal centring on the
xenophobic and, many alleged, racist
nature of the proposal, evidence of which was found in the SVP poster advocating approval that showed white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag: