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[Lee Fairclough @LFairclo]

Doug Ford didn’t get rid of his #gravyplane. He just found a way to keep flying it on your dime.

The taxpayer funded  Bombardier Challenger was sold at a $200k loss to Chartright — the same company now chartering it back to Ford at $10,000 an hour. Also billed to Ontario.

[Steffan Watkins  @steffanwatkins]

🇨🇦 Doug Ford's $30M private jet, that he wasted $200k of Ontario tax revenue on, has been sold to Doug Ford's preferred private charter company, Chartright, who have previously provided planes for his luxurious travel tastes to Texas and Saskatchewan at ~$10k/hr. #GravyPlane

[Juno News @junonewscom]

Poilievre says Carney is pushing Canada toward a surveillance state, citing:

C-11 (algorithm control)
C-22 (state-linked data access)
C-9 (labelling religious text as "hate")
C-8 (removing internet access)

[Windscribe @windscribecom]

Canadian Police Chiefs: Our officers are using police databases to meet women by running their license plates in the system and finding their info.

Also Canadian Police Chiefs: We absolutely NEED laws that force companies to keep databases about all Canadians! For uh... safety!

[National Post @nationalpost]

The worst-case scenarios that Carney's 'social media ban' could enable.

Ottawa could get sweeping powers to decide who's able to use the internet, and even what AI chatbots are allowed to say, writes Tristin Hopper https://t.co/qhZMLk1p7x

[National Post @nationalpost]

NP View: Mark Carney's online surveillance state
https://t.co/qc6XHXvubc

[Lars Andersen @LarsAnders1620]

Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed

This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday.

I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years.

I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke down my door - with no prior warning.

The prefece to the story is, that I in a kind of roundabout and (I think) humorous way published "my two favorite numbers" by spelling out a 10 diget and a 8 diget number with letters. I didn't tell what they ment, but they where prime minister Mette Frederiksen's social security and phone number.

I also published a screenshot of me trying to interview Mette Frederiksen on what app, asking her about her wanting to ban encryption (CSA) and introducing mass surveillance via granting the police intelligence services access to all sorts of information (medical journals, social media posts, DNA registers ment for research and so on).

That resulted in me being arrested by armed and masked police breaking down my door without me having any chance of opening it for them.

When the two civilian dressed masked men entered the apparentment one of them immediately went for the circuit breaker panel to shut off the power to my router. They then removed my Google Nest cameras - because they knew that the cameras contains local storage.

That way they could avoid having video of the (in my view) illegal arrest. Only the few moments before the power is cut was filmed. There is video of me asking them for the charges - and them refusing to tell me (which is illegal). But I can't access it, because they took the cameras.

I'm not even sure if that is legal. In Denmark it is (nominally) totally legal to film the police. That way it is possible to know what happened and it's not just your word against there's.

Denmark and the West are moving in the wrong direction, and it makes me sad.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

OHHHH BUT WHEN *I* SAY IT IM THE CRAZY ONE, HUH

I LITERALLY SAID THAT IF YOU WANT INTERNET FREEDOM FOR SPEECH, YOU NEED TO DEFEND PORN

NOW LOOK

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @RonDeibert, @OpenMediaOrg and @cancivlib - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22.

They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:

- force companies to keep metadata for up to a year, making a vast trove of personal information vulnerable to leaks and hacks

- make encryption meaningless by creating backdoors in software that allow police and gov. agencies to scoop up our personal data and messages

- give US police and spy agencies direct access to Canadians’ personal data without warning or oversight

So what is the Carney government doing? Ramming C-22 through in the dying hours of the session.

Meanwhile, Minister Solomon offers a retail sales pitch for potential powers of a new regulator that won’t even exist for at least 18 months.

Instead of just banning surveillance pricing and protecting us from other forms of digital spying and extraction.

Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.

[Jenny Kwan @JennyKwanBC]

Carney rammed C-22 thru committee, rushing massive expansion of state surveillance powers w/o proper debate.
With few minor fixes, core threats to digital privacy & civil liberties remain unresolved. Canadians deserve better than secret orders and closed-door cabinet overreach.

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

Hey ‼️ digital rights advocates worldwide

The Carney 🇨🇦 govt is pushing thru parliament a flurry of bills that are among the worst I and my colleagues have ever seen. They will create security risks, erode civil liberties, enhance mass surveillance, and undermine oversight.

[Josh Tabish @jdtabish]

🚨 BREAKING - The government just called a vote on their motion to end debate on Bill C-22. Clause by clause could wrap tonight with the government's amendments effectively rammed through.

[Globalnews.ca @globalnews]

A privacy expert told Global News the Liberals' push to fast-track the bill and limit debate was "staggering" and "astonishing."

https://t.co/O8oGqqfWJO

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

🚨The government is moving to shut down lawful access hearings and consideration of amendments on mandatory metadata retention, security backdoors, and weakened encryption today. All amendments to Bill C-22 would be kept secret and voted on without debate.
https://t.co/sxgD7dsZ3r

[Labour Digital Rights Network @LabDRN]

We agree with every word of this statement by @signalapp ⤵️

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Now is the last chance for Canadians to urge their MPs to reject Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill will give government and police easy access to your private internet data.

Find your MP's contact details here:  https://t.co/Q29tbbyKFO and urge him or her to oppose this surveillance legislation.

Signal, NordVPN, Windscribe, and ProtonVPN are among the companies that will withdraw their services from Canada if Bill C-22 passes.

If passed into law, Bill C-22 will allow the government to:

- order companies to develop capacity for organizing and extracting your data for law enforcement review
- order companies to install devices that feed your information to government and law enforcement
- order companies to retain your data for up to one year
issue orders in secret.

Contact your MP today:  https://t.co/Q29tbbyKFO

[Windscribe @windscribecom]

A statement from the CEO of Windscribe.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Community consultations are absolutely critical, but the choice facing the Prime Minister is clear. Premier Ford is in the middle of a land grab, and the federal government has both the power and the responsibility to stop this irresponsible and anti-democratic move.

The fact that Doug Ford seized the land from the City of Toronto in order to ram through a project owned and operated by American banking giant JP Morgan tells you all you need to know about who will benefit from his plan.

Prime Minister Carney ran on a promise to protect Canadians from Donald Trump and stand up for Canadian sovereignty. He cannot sit on the fence while Doug Ford hands more power to Wall Street.

Like Ontario Place, the Science Centre, and so much more, Doug Ford is acting as though Toronto is a playground for him and his CEO friends. It isn't. Toronto belongs to the people, and the people don't need or want the jets, noise, traffic, and pollution that this massive expansion would bring.

https://t.co/YAO8gMV5Ar

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

Doug Ford has racked up the largest subnational debt in the world. No province, state or small country has as much debt as Ford. Ontario's net debt is projected to surpass half a trillion dollars, sitting at around $507.1 billion and he goes off on vacation for five months?

[tobi lutke @tobi]

C-22 is a mistake. Not one part of it, the entire direction. ( Same for C-9 )

https://t.co/D5apl9nwvF