The federal government and Canada's police forces are hoping that new legislation will allow them to catch up to the criminals who can now plot their activities with undetectable technologies such as PIN and SMS messages on their cell phones.

Reintroducing legislation that was tabled last year but died on the order paper, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government said it's time to modernize Canada's legal framework and ensure that all communications between suspected criminals can eventually be intercepted by police.

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