This week, Guelph MP Frank Valeriote tabled a private member's bill in Parliament on identity theft that he believes carries the weight of appropriate punishment for the crime.

Valeriote said he noticed identity theft becoming a growing problem when he was still practising law.

A private member's bill on the issue was tabled several years ago, he said, but an election call scuttled it....

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