Secret police wiretaps flying under the radar CBC Bob McMynn knows first-hand how Canada’s laws allow police to eavesdrop and use emergency wiretaps without a judge’s approval. He says Section 184.4 of the Criminal Code helped to save his son Graham’s life after a group of young men abducted the then 23-year-old university student at gunpoint in April 2006, in what turned out to be a kidnapping for ransom. “[The emergency wiretap] was paramount in solving where my son was,” McMynn told CBC Ne