Privacy law scholars (in their open letter), the Canadian Bar Association, Citizen Lab, and others have correctly warned that these measures are overbroad and unlikely to survive Charter scrutiny. They fail the reasonableness test under s. 8 because they do not properly balance law enforcement needs with privacy rights.The government’s own Charter Statement admits potential s. 8 impacts but claims they are justified under s. 1. Courts, not ministerial spin, will decide, and existing precedents strongly indicate that key parts of this bill will not withstand constitutional challenge.This isn’t lawful access. It’s mass surveillance dressed up as modernization. It treats every Canadian as a potential suspect.Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026) clearly infringes section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees protection against unreasonable search and seizure.The bill’s worst violations are:Expanded subscriber information orders issued on the weak standard of “reasonable grounds to suspect” an offence (downgraded from “believe”), targeting data that the Supreme Court has already recognized as carrying a high expectation of privacy (R v Spencer and R v Bykovets).
Mandatory metadata retention, allowing regulations to force telecoms and “core” service providers to store transmission, location, and other metadata on every user for up to one year, a classic blanket, suspicionless surveillance regime affecting millions of innocent Canadians.
‼️BREAKING
Canadian law-enforcement is freaking out because they are losing the battle for C-22
they are PUSHING HARD for encryption access
Sorry guys, no one trusts you, or Canada, with the keys...... The entire world saw what you did to the truckers.
Canada has Collapsed
One of the many symptoms of collapse is the-function of government
Canada's federal government no longer functions
A typical government will pass about 30 pieces of legislation in a year functioning on the priorities of the country
Since Carney got elected in 2025 there were 5 pieces of legislature and halfway through 2026 only 4 pieces so far
The frightening legislation that has been introduced and passed in Canada so far this year is 4 laws.
The focus of the laws that have been passed clearly outline the priorities of the Carney government and they are not about you
.@hollyanndoan@CandiceMalcolm
Privacy law scholars (in their open letter), the Canadian Bar Association, Citizen Lab, and others have correctly warned that these measures are overbroad and unlikely to survive Charter scrutiny. They fail the reasonableness test under s. 8 because they do not properly balance law enforcement needs with privacy rights. The government’s own Charter Statement admits potential s. 8 impacts but claims they are justified under s. 1. Courts, not ministerial spin, will decide, and existing precedents strongly indicate that key parts of this bill will not withstand constitutional challenge.This isn’t lawful access. It’s mass surveillance dressed up as modernization. It treats every Canadian as a potential suspect.Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026) clearly infringes section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees protection against unreasonable search and seizure.The bill’s worst violations are:Expanded subscriber information orders issued on the weak standard of “reasonable grounds to suspect” an offence (downgraded from “believe”), targeting data that the Supreme Court has already recognized as carrying a high expectation of privacy (R v Spencer and R v Bykovets).
Mandatory metadata retention, allowing regulations to force telecoms and “core” service providers to store transmission, location, and other metadata on every user for up to one year, a classic blanket, suspicionless surveillance regime affecting millions of innocent Canadians.
Never seen anything like this. The Liberals are ramming through Bill C-22 and ignoring legitimate voices. Shameful.
We will fight this abuse of process every step of the way.
Last week, the Carney government launched its latest attack on free speech online. They call it stopping “harmful” content. I call it censorship.
Bill C-34 creates a new bureaucracy: the Digital Safety Commission of Canada. Its job will be to police what you say and read online.
Under the guise of “protecting children,” this bill forces social media platforms and AI companies to mitigate exposure to "hate speech.”
A “hate speech ” is a “content that expresses detestation or vilification” of an individual or group of individuals based on prohibited grounds of discrimination.
But, courts have always required that "hatred" be extreme to be a crime. This new definition does not include the term "extreme," contrary to case law.
The government therefore broadens the definition of "hatred.”
Furthermore, the concept of "hate" will no longer be decided by judges. This decision will be made by unelected bureaucrats and scared tech employees facing $10 million fines.
Social media companies and AI companies concerned about facing fines will likely err on the side of censoring more expression by blocking it or filtering it out.
Most shockingly, the bill would censor the output of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to ensure they don’t give “harmful” answers on sensitive topics.
This will result in AI that refuse to give honest answers on unpopular viewpoints. And a sanitized internet where people cannot have difficult conversations and debates on subjects not politically correct, like it happened during the COVID hysteria.
To keep kids under 16 off social media, the bill would force platforms to verify your age. This could involve requiring all adults to present a driver's license to create an account.
Let me be clear: the People’s Party of Canada will always support protecting children from real harm.
But “safety” does not mean censorship. This is not a child safety bill. It is a bill of control and censorship.
A free and democratic society protects speech that is distasteful, unpopular, or contrary to the mainstream. Without that, democracy dies.
We will not trade liberty for the illusion of safety. We will not let Ottawa become the online speech police.
Breaking 🚨
Liberals are shutting down debate, to ram Bill C-22 through House by Friday!
This is despite C-22 violating our Charter Rights against Arbitrary Seizure!
Please see my short exchange with Attorney General @SeanFraserMP. ⬇️
The Liberals are giving MPs just TEN HOURS to debate Bill C-22, which gives Carney's police the power to engage in DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE WITHOUT A WARRANT.
Gary Anandasangaree says he needs to do this because the Conservatives are "obstructing" the passage of this bill.
This is an attack on the freedom and privacy of all Canadians.
🚨 Canada’s debt isn’t a problem.
It’s a catastrophe in slow motion 💣
WHERE WE ARE📌
Federal net debt: $1.266 trillion (March 2025)
Total federal liabilities: $2.18 trillion — all-time high
Your share: $52,487 per Canadian in liabilities. Highest in history.
Every child born today inherits $31,130 before earning their first dollar.
THE INTEREST BILL📌
Canada paid $53.3 billion in interest alone in 2024-25. Up 13% in one year.
More than the Canada Health Transfer to every province combined ($52.1B).
The debt is growing at $148,973 per minute.
By 2030 the interest bill hits $76.1 billion — a 37% spike from today.
CARNEY MADE IT WORSE📌
This year’s deficit: $78.3 billion — largest in Canadian history outside COVID.
That’s the tenth consecutive year without a balanced budget.
Carney’s 5-year deficit plan: $321.7 billion — more than double what even Trudeau projected.
Total federal debt projected: $2.9 trillion by 2029.
Even when Carney claims to “balance the budget” in 2028 — the real deficit that year is still $57.9 billion.
That’s the accounting trick.
They renamed debt “capital investment.”
The bill didn’t change. Just the label.
THE 15-YEAR SCORECARD📌
2015 (Liberals take power): $692B in federal debt
2025: $1.266 trillion
2030 (projected): $1.79 trillion net / $2.9 trillion gross
In 15 years of Liberal governance: the debt nearly quadruples.
No war.
No pandemic excuse left.
Just spending.
WHAT $76 BILLION IN INTEREST BUYS YOU📌
Nothing.
Not a hospital.
Not a road.
Not a food bank top-up.
Not a housing unit.
$92.5 billion in combined federal-provincial interest payments in 2024-25.
Gone. Every year. Forever. Growing.
Canada isn’t broke.🇨🇦🚨
Canada is being slowly bled by the cost of decisions made by people who will never feel the consequences.
Their pensions are indexed.
Your debt is compounding.
🇨🇦 Repost if your kids deserve better than this inheritance.
🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #CanadaDebt #FederalDeficit
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Paris meeting with Emmanuel Macron represents a profound betrayal of Canadian interests by the Liberal government. Rather than prioritizing our indispensable alliance with the United States, Carney is pushing closer ties with Europe on trade, defense, technology, and security, even claiming the next world order will be built from Europe with Canada involved. This globalist fantasy comes at a time when U.S. tariffs are pressuring our economy and recession looms, yet the focus is on EU security partnerships instead of negotiating robustly with our southern neighbor. Online critics are spot on in labeling this a sovereignty giveaway, one that risks fueling Alberta's separation referendum and further alienating the West from Ottawa's elite agenda. This alignment with Macron's Europe undermines Canada's strength in the Western Hemisphere and invites dependency on distant powers with their own agendas of regulation and migration policies that clash with conservative values of sovereignty and self-reliance. This is not the Canada-first approach voters deserve. Is this what Canadians want?
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Paris meeting with Emmanuel Macron represents a profound betrayal of Canadian interests by the Liberal government. Rather than prioritizing our indispensable alliance with the United States, Carney is pushing closer ties with Europe on trade, defense, technology, and security, even claiming the next world order will be built from Europe with Canada involved. This globalist fantasy comes at a time when U.S. tariffs are pressuring our economy and recession looms, yet the focus is on EU security partnerships instead of negotiating robustly with our southern neighbor. Online critics are spot on in labeling this a sovereignty giveaway, one that risks fueling Alberta's separation referendum and further alienating the West from Ottawa's elite agenda. This alignment with Macron's Europe undermines Canada's strength in the Western Hemisphere and invites dependency on distant powers with their own agendas of regulation and migration policies that clash with conservative values of sovereignty and self-reliance. This is not the Canada-first approach voters deserve. Is this what Canadians want?
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Paris meeting with Emmanuel Macron represents a profound betrayal of Canadian interests by the Liberal government. Rather than prioritizing our indispensable alliance with the United States, Carney is pushing closer ties with Europe on trade, defense, technology, and security, even claiming the next world order will be built from Europe with Canada involved. This globalist fantasy comes at a time when U.S. tariffs are pressuring our economy and recession looms, yet the focus is on EU security partnerships instead of negotiating robustly with our southern neighbor. Online critics are spot on in labeling this a sovereignty giveaway, one that risks fueling Alberta's separation referendum and further alienating the West from Ottawa's elite agenda. This alignment with Macron's Europe undermines Canada's strength in the Western Hemisphere and invites dependency on distant powers with their own agendas of regulation and migration policies that clash with conservative values of sovereignty and self-reliance. This is not the Canada-first approach voters deserve. Is this what Canadians want?
Mark Carney claims he didn't say what said.
The backpedal:
"To be clear, if you look at the speech, I've never advocated that all of a sudden there was going to be a band of middle powers, you know, the M20 or something like that."
The facts:
"I argue the middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu... in a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour or to combine to create a third path with impact."
Another day, another spin.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
https://t.co/pLMD0krc69
Starmer just suffered a humiliating local election collapse. Labour lost over 1,400 council seats across England, Scotland and Wales. Reform UK made huge gains in the old industrial heartlands and Brexit-voting towns that were once safe Labour ground. Why did he lose? Because after promising “change,” people are still facing sky-high energy bills, out-of-control immigration, winter fuel payment cuts for pensioners, and an economy that isn’t delivering. Voters feel ignored on the basics.Then, almost immediately, Starmer rolls out the same scripted speech we heard from Mark Carney at Davos: “Dangerous world,” “protect progressive values,” “threats to democracy.” It’s the identical globalist script recycled from WEF circles paint the world as scary, warn about populists, then position yourself as the defender of the liberal order. While British families struggle with bills and waiting lists, the elite pivot to grand international threats. This rhetoric is tired and disconnected. If Starmer keeps reading from the same Davos playbook, the next collapse will be far bigger than local elections.
This bill doesn't just risk violating the Charter, it almost guarantees a successful court challenge under the Section 1 'reasonable limits' test because less invasive options (like quick-freeze orders) exist. Parliament needs to kill or gut Bill C-22 before it erodes our digital privacy forever. "Bill C-22 isn't 'balancing' safety and privacy, it's a direct assault on Canadians' Charter rights, especially Section 8 protections against unreasonable search and seizure. The strongest privacy and Charter risks, as laid out by experts like Michael Geist, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, and the CCLA, are crystal clear: Lowered evidentiary threshold for subscriber information: Police can now get your name, address, and account details with just 'reasonable suspicion', a lower bar than the 'reasonable grounds to believe' standard. This flies in the face of Supreme Court rulings in Spencer (2014) and Bykovets (2024), which recognized the high privacy interest in linking IP addresses to real identities and online activity.
Mandatory metadata retention for up to 1 year: The government can force 'core' electronic service providers to retain transmission data (who you communicated with, when, device and location info) on ALL users, not just suspects. This is blanket retention, the exact kind of mass surveillance the EU Court of Justice has repeatedly struck down as disproportionate.
Technical capability mandates ('backdoors'): Part 2 requires companies to build and maintain systems for quick data extraction and lawful interception, turning private tech into permanent extensions of the surveillance state and weakening cybersecurity for everyone.
Broad scope + weak oversight: Vague definitions of 'electronic service providers,' secret ministerial orders, and insufficient checks make fishing expeditions far too easy.
🇨🇦 Keep a sharp eye on Bill C-22. 👁️
While it establishes a heavyweight national security oversight body, the fact that most of its operations happen in the shadows is sparking serious transparency and accountability concerns.
For those watching closely, the secrecy feels a little too "Orwellian" for comfort. 📕 : @strauss_matt
#C22 #Privacy #Cdnpoli #Canada