Bill C-22, The Lawful Access Act, is the Canadian Liberal government’s newest and most egregious effort to strip the rights and freedoms from it’s citizens, enforcing increasing surveillance and control.
Bill C-22 hands the Liberals sweeping new powers, allowing them to compel service providers to build technical capabilities for government access to user data, and to retain your personal metadata for up to one year for them to access.
Providers will face mandates to develop extraction systems, install access devices, and comply with ministerial orders (subject only to Intelligence Commissioner review). Further, strict confidentiality rules will gag companies from disclosing these access demands.
While the bill carves out exemptions to avoid creating “systemic vulnerabilities” in encryption, expanded Criminal Code warrants and production orders for subscriber and transmission data erode privacy protections and due process.
This is legislation that has never before been seen in the Western hemisphere.
For businesses, the costs of compliance development, retention systems, audits, inspections, and a risk of penalties of up to $250,000 per violation continuing daily, add heavy regulatory burdens. Some major companies have already expressed their willingness to move headquarters (and tax dollars) out of Canada permanently if this bill passes.
Smaller and foreign digital platforms have threatened to exit or avoid Canada altogether, rather than redesign services or risk liability. This only serves to accelerate the flight of tech investments and jobs out of Canada where they are desperately needed.
Apple, Google and Meta have all shared concerns or called this a deal-breaker. Signal, NordVPN, Windscribe, ExpressVPN and Proton have all spoken of pulling out of Canada rather than risk these vulnerabilities.
Even the Canadian Chamber of Commerce has formally opposed this legislation on behalf of tech giants Telus and Rogers, among others.
The US House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees sent a formal letter to Canadian officials warning that Bill C-22 would expand surveillance powers in ways that threaten the security, privacy, and constitutional rights of American citizens.
They fear it could compel US companies to build backdoors into encrypted systems, creating systemic vulnerabilities exploitable by hackers, foreign adversaries, and criminals. The bill’s vague “systemic vulnerability” exemption (subject to future regulatory interpretation) provides little safeguard, while secret ministerial orders, reviewed only by the Intelligence Commissioner and kept confidential, could force targeted providers, including those offering end-to-end encryption, to weaken encryption or alter systems for data access. These risks are heightened by ongoing US - Canada discussions under the CLOUD Act.
The European Court of Justice struck down the very same surveillance efforts in 2014, calling them unconstitutional and a disproportionate violation of fundamental rights.
Even the most pro-liberal Canadian voices are speaking out against it, referring to it as the end of our privacy rights in Canada, specifically Section 8; our right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure.
Carney is turning our country into a surveillance state one bill at a time, and few are paying attention.
Bill C-9 criminalizes hate speech, allowing the government to determine what we are allowed to say. Bill C-8 allows the government to cut off your internet access completely, if they consider your opinions to be a threat. With Bill C-22, they have the ability to surveil your activities and communications past and present, without a warrant and without your knowledge or any real oversight.
In summary, C-22 gives them the evidence to determine if you are a threat, C-9 allows them to label you as such legally, and C-8 allows them to silence your voice completely. Together, they attack our freedoms of speech, association and protection against unreasonable search and seizure – the very core of what we hold dear as Canadians.
Across the board, Canadians face diminished rights under expanded surveillance tools, while our economy loses more ground to more privacy-respecting jurisdictions.
How can anyone still believe that this government has the wellbeing of Canadians in mind?
To read Bill C-22, click the link; https://t.co/pjw2GjWZ5J
After years of minimizing vaccine injuries, Public Health Canada is slowly revealing the extent of the hardship Canadians face in the aftermath of Covid-era vaccine passports and mandates.
According to records, over 10,000 “serious” injury cases were reported, including 442 deaths. These injuries included 1,167 cases of heart inflammation, 289 strokes, 283 heart attacks, 198 cases of facial paralysis, 116 cases of kidney damage, and 88 spontaneous abortions. As of July 2025, compensation paid for medical and funeral expenses totaled $18.1 million, with 3,317 Canadians filing claims.
https://t.co/m7F1sQDbHj
We must restore the independence and autonomy of individual police officers to investigate crimes and public officials without improper political interference.
That's what a group of Canadians - including current and former police officers and lawmakers - are working for at the Grus Justice Project.
Here is the trailer for our just premiered feature length documentary about @OttawaPolice Detective Helen Grus.
The full documentary is now touring Canada, USA and the UK. Australia, New Zealand, and Asia locations and dates coming soon. See comments for link to tickets or to host a screening - at your home or larger venue.
Silencing Detective Grus
Detective Helen Grus uncovered an unusual cluster of infant deaths and asked questions that pointed to powerful interests.
For doing her job, she was prosecuted in Canada’s longest and most costly police disciplinary hearing.
Her case has resulted in police officers needing to first seek permission to investigate public officials or crimes with “societal or political ramifications”. Police no longer are free to act on evidence and their sworn duty to uphold the law.
Film producer Todd Harris has produced a powerful full-length documentary titled – Silencing Detective Grus.
The documentary exposes the politicization of law enforcement in Canada and the consequences for all Canadians.
In a recent ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Antonio Skarica has exposed what we have all been witnessing; how our justice system routinely applies different rules for foreign offenders while law-abiding Canadians pay the price.
In sentencing Nigerian national Boss Omeire to 28 months in prison for extortion and the non-consensual distribution of an intimate image, Justice Skarica declared the system is at a dangerous “inflection point” and must choose whether to protect vulnerable Canadian victims or shield criminals who never should have been here in the first place.
Omeire arrived in Canada as a student in 2014 and had no valid immigration status during his crimes in 2023. He repeatedly breached bail, terrorized a hardworking Canadian woman in the Waterloo area, threatened her, and posted an explicit video of her despite her desperate pleas. The victim now lives in constant fear, her life effectively ruined. Justice Skarica noted Omeire “shouldn’t have been at large on bail in 2023” and “should not have been in this country at all.”
The judge’s most damning critique came in plain language that every Canadian should heed: “Who should get priority? Should it be a foreign-born individual with no current immigration status, who was granted the privilege of attending one of our educational institutions, and used that opportunity to abuse a law-abiding, honest, hardworking but vulnerable Canadian citizen? Asking that question provides the obvious answer.”
For too long, Canadian courts have treated deportation risk as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Defence lawyers routinely argue that a lighter sentence is needed to spare foreign criminals from removal, effectively turning immigration consequences into a sentencing discount. The result? Repeat offenders and non-citizens remain free to prey on Canadians while victims are told to accept diminutive sentences that fail to deliver real justice.
Justice Skarica’s ruling is a long-overdue wake-up call. Fair and equal treatment under the law must mean exactly that: sentences that fit the crime, not the offender’s passport. Canadians deserve harsher, no-nonsense punishments for non-citizens who abuse our hospitality and for repeat offenders who treat bail like a revolving door. Prioritizing deportation status over public safety has only guaranteed one thing; more criminals staying right here, free to reoffend.
It is time to end the two-tier system. Canadian victims first, foreign criminals and recidivists last. Justice Skarica has drawn the line, it’s time for our courts to enforce it.
To read the Ontario Superior Court case, click the link; https://t.co/M9ft2t5Svb
🚨😡💥 OUTRAGEOUS COVER-UP IN CANADA’S OWN POLICE HEARING!
Bath-Sheba van den Berg — Barrister & Solicitor, called to the Bar in Alberta and Ontario, founder of Egronomy Law, expert in constitutional, administrative, human rights & regulatory law — just TORCHED the hearing while defending Detective Helen Grus! 😭👶
This is during the internal disciplinary misconduct hearing against Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus (charged with “discreditable conduct” for daring to investigate sudden infant deaths and asking about COVID vaccine status of parents).
Van den Berg was cross-examining witnesses and addressing the hearing officer/tribunal adjudicator Chris Renwick when this bombshell dropped.
😳 ⚡️ The hearing officer physically lurched forward in his wheeled chair and yelled “STOP!” as the horrific Pfizer data was being stated — a moment burned into van den Berg’s mind forever. 😳
FULL TRANSCRIPT (Bath-Sheba van den Berg speaking in the hearing):
“In the clinical data itself, it reported that there was 270 women – actually 274 women that had unanticipated pregnancies. And that means that they weren’t actually part of the clinical trial themselves.
They just had unanticipated pregnancies and that out of the 274 – and they said four were fetus cases, so if we look at actually 270 is actually the figure.
That 238 outcomes are unknown. So they didn’t know what happened to two hundred and thirty-eight pregnancies but they did know about the other 32, and 31 had died. Thirty-one babies have died out of 32. That’s a 97% fatality rate during the Pfizer clinical trials.
Now, [referring to] Detective Gruss while she was testifying – she’s sitting there in front of me facing [them] and she’s stating simply that 31 out of 32. And as she was stating that, the hearing officer lurched forward because you’ve got to remember these chairs… this chair right here has wheels on it… kind of lurched forward. It said ‘stop’. As he was stating that information. And she just went like this [gesture]. I know I’ll never forget that image. And it’s because of that image that has been burned into my mind. But I thought it is important to talk about her case publicly. Not just her case, for what she was looking [at].”
THIS IS PURE EVIL.
A top human rights lawyer dropping Pfizer’s own trial data showing 97% baby fatality in tracked cases — and the tribunal officer shuts it down on the spot?! While they persecuted a detective for simply asking questions about dead infants matching the exact adverse events Pfizer reported.
How DARE they silence this while babies died?! This isn’t oversight — it’s a full-blown CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY playing out in a Canadian police hearing! 🔥🔥🔥
My blood is literally boiling!
WAKE UP CANADA & WORLD — share this before they bury it deeper! Demand answers and justice for these babies NOW!
#PfizerGenocide #JusticeForGrus #BabyLivesMatter #VaccineHolocaust #HoldThemAccountable #DrMargaretShowExposed 🔥❤️
Update on the sentencing hearing for Det. Helen Grus:
It’s an absolute disgrace to compare Det. Grus’ case to case law involving an officer who received oral sex while on duty. The comparison is completely inappropriate but unfortunately not surprising given the circus this case has become.
Prosecution cites precedent of male police officers found guilty of discreditable conduct for receiving oral sex in their patrol vehicles while on duty and (mostly) in uniform as justification for demotion of Cst. Helen Grus for the same charge. https://t.co/3gFJCUlTvN
BREAKING NEWS:
The Justice Centre announces that it has delivered a national petition signed by 42,344 Canadians from every province and territory calling on Members of Parliament to defeat Bill C-22, the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation.
Justice Centre board member and constitutional historian Dr. John Robson formally presented the petition in Ottawa, warning that Bill C-22 would significantly expand state surveillance powers while undermining the privacy protections essential to a free society.
“Privacy is not a luxury in a free society,” said Dr. Robson. “Privacy protects freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the ability of ordinary Canadians to live without constant monitoring by the state.”
Read the full story here:
https://t.co/6uPWAAdbGJ
The Justice Centre is Canada’s leading civil liberties organization fighting for Charter rights and freedoms in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion. Founded in 2010, the Justice Centre funds lawyers across Canada, relies entirely on voluntary donations to carry out its mission, and issues official tax receipts to donors. To donate, click on this link: https://t.co/Utp4jMl53j
Let’s support @Carrie298924321 on her journey as her case makes its way through the court system.
To help Carrie, with medical and legal bills, you can donate to her GiveSendGo campaign by clicking the link; https://t.co/Muzi8l12Ge
Let me remind you,what happened 5 years ago is affecting so many like me STILL to this day. Join me as I go back to court June 15-18 in Calgary at the Court of Kings Bench.
Details and link at https://t.co/13WeUCBZPn or message me ❣️
🚨 Taxpayer-funded CBC just got caught running humiliation rituals on retired RCMP veterans. 🇨🇦
They lured 6 officers including 40-year vet Clinton Jaws, with a fake “honour ceremony” featuring Prince William.
Instead? A staged propaganda takedown blaming the RCMP for residential schools.
Jaws: “I’m sick to my stomach… I felt evil around me.”
This isn’t comedy. It’s Liberal funded malicious state activism with $1.38 BILLION dollars of YOUR money! #DefundCBC
After suffering the longest and most aggressively prosecuted mischief trial in Canadian history, Tamara Lich (@LichTamara) is now suing the police and Crown for malicious prosecution and negligent investigation.
She was found guilty of mischief for her role in the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa and given an 18-month conditional sentence including 100 hrs of community service and 12 months of house arrest, followed by 6 months of curfew.
A condition of her pretrial release was zero contact with other convoy organizers, although she had been granted permission to attend an award ceremony where other organizers would be, provided she was in the company of her lawyer (which she was).
Despite this, a photo was taken at the event of her with another convoy organizer which brought about an immediate Canada-wide warrant for breaching bail conditions. She was quickly arrested and transported back to Ottawa where she was held without bail until her trial.
Tamara Lich had no prior criminal history and consistently promoted peaceful assembly throughout the convoy protest; a fact acknowledged by the courts.
By pursuing maximum penalties against non-violent organizers like herself and Chris Barber, while typical mischief cases result in far less, authorities have effectively weaponized the justice system to chill dissent.
Compare this to countless recent reports of repeat violent offenders being released with a slap on the wrist and it’s easy to see that she was being made an example of.
“This isn’t just about me,” Lich stated. “It’s about stopping this kind of abuse so no Canadian ever faces it again.” Her lawsuit seeks to reaffirm that the Charter stands above all, protecting peaceful protest, fair process, and equal application of the rule of law.
Our Charter is not ambiguous on these matters. If we do not correct the actions of our government and judiciary now, and demand accountability, those willing will continue their efforts to suppress our rights and freedoms.
We fully support Tamara’s fight for justice.
Tamara has launched a GiveSendGo campaign to fund this effort. You can donate by clicking the link; https://t.co/LpgQUTkhuh
We’re deeply saddened to hear that Mark Friesen (@MarkFriesen08) has passed away.
For those who had been following his journey, Mark was recently diagnosed with ALS. Throughout it all, he showed remarkable strength and courage.
We will always be grateful for the way he stood strong and fought with determination.
It was an honour to know him, to stand alongside him, and to call him both a member of our community and a friend. His presence and spirit will not be forgotten.
RIP Mark
The sentencing phase for Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus has evolved from a straightforward disciplinary proceeding into a prolonged, contentious spectacle—what many now see as bureaucratic theatre rather than clear-cut discipline. After years of hearings, delays, and procedural wrangling, the tribunal is finally deciding her penalty following a misconduct conviction that reflect as much on internal politics as professional standards. The process has drawn attention not only for its length, but for the sharp divide between those who view it as necessary discipline and those of us who see it as institutional overreach.
Det, Grus is facing sentencing for a Police Service Act charge of Discreditable Conduct for allegedly seeking links between the Covid vaccine and deaths of children. They are seeking a potential punishment of a 2 year demotion.
As part of the SACA (Sexual Assault Child Abuse) unit, their mandate is to investigate all sudden and unexpected child deaths of children under the age of five. These investigations are crucial and mandated by law.
Her upcoming sentencing is scheduled for May 19th-21st, 2026, at 9:30am at 211 Huntmar Dr. in Kanata.
They have denied online viewing access to the public and are only allowing in person viewing. If you’re in the Ottawa area, please attend to support Det. Grus.
Detective Grus has been denied legal funding by the Ottawa Police Association (OPA) board of directors. The OPA dues are mandatory for all officers and civilians of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) and the OPA has a duty to provide "fair representation" to its paying members.
Det. Grus will be appealing this decision, so there will be continued court costs on the future.
If you wish to donate to her legal fees, please click the link; https://t.co/WvAe7Ht8Qi
Now, more than ever we need to stand alongside of these members and show our support!!
The Justice Centre announces the release of its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting a year of significant legal victories, national advocacy, and growing public engagement in defence of Canadians’ Charter rights and freedoms.
The report outlines a strong record of impact across litigation, education, and public policy. In 2025, lawyers funded by the Justice Centre handled 86 active cases nationwide, defending freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, conscience, religion, and mobility.
To read the full release and report visit:
https://t.co/ih0QBNwEOb
Do you believe the governments of Canada and Alberta engaged in misfeasance in public office by coercing, incentivizing, and mandating participation in public life based on a person’s vaccination status? See our argument below.
“The pleadings allege conduct going beyond mere error or poor judgment, including continued promotion of vaccination programs under assurances of safety, efficacy, and interchangeability despite known uncertainties and risks. Whether this conduct meets the threshold of deliberate misconduct is a matter for trial.
Even absent proof of subjective intent to harm, reckless indifference or willful blindness to foreseeable injury is sufficient to satisfy the intent element of misfeasance. The Plaintiff pleads specific factual allegations demonstrating misuse of statutory authority, including the issuance of ultra vires public health orders, the use of financial incentives to compel compliance, and restrictions on civil liberties to enforce vaccination under allegedly false assurances.
The pleaded facts support an inference of reckless indifference or willful blindness to foreseeable harm, which is sufficient to ground misfeasance in public office. The establishment of the Vaccine Injury Support Program supports the inference that the Defendants were aware of potential harm, reinforcing the pleaded allegation of recklessness.”
At the end of the day, this case asks fundamental questions:
What limits, if any, exist on government power during a crisis?
And if those limits are exceeded, should governments and public officials be held accountable for the resulting overreach and harm?
🚨The First-Ever Public Screening of Silencing Detective Grus
Ottawa Tickets On Sale Now for May 19 Premiere
For the first time, the major documentary Silencing Detective Grus will be shown publicly in Canada’s capital.
This is more than a screening. It is the public launch of a Canadian story every citizen should see, understand, and discuss.
At the centre of the case is a question every Canadian should care about:
Can police investigate sensitive matters involving public officials without political interference?
This is a story about police independence, public trust, and accountability in Canada.
Don’t just hear about it. See it for yourself.
Your ticket helps bring the film to more people, stand with Helen Grus, and continue the valuable work of the Grus Justice Project - Covering operational, organizing and future events.
Be in the room for the first showing.
Ottawa | May 19, 2026, Film starts 7:20pm ET
Link for Tickets in the next comment.
What we are witnessing with Chief Justice Richard Wagner's refusal to recuse himself from the Appeal on the Emergencies Act is an historical moment. I will write more on this later but my point is this: The age old adage - "Justice must not only be done but be seen to be done" - is facing its greatest challenge in Canada with this decision.
Consider the Chief Justice Bora Laskin dispute with Justice Thomas Berger in the 1980s (https://t.co/bh0TY0mv3A)
The National Post reports:
"Chief Justice Richard Wagner dismisses request to recuse from Emergencies Act appeal
Wagner called the Freedom Convoy protest the 'start of anarchy' and said participants took Ottawa residents 'hostage'"
"In a letter to parties on Wednesday, Supreme Court of Canada registrar Chantal Carbonneau said Wagner believed there was no legal reason for him to step aside from the case, which the top court is currently considering if it should hear.
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“I am writing to advise that Chief Justice Wagner has considered the certificates and letter, and has concluded that there is no actual or reasonable apprehension of bias that would require his recusal under the applicable legal test,” Carbonneau responded to parties.
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“In this respect, Chief Justice Wagner has advised that he did not, at any time, either directly or indirectly, comment on the Emergencies Act, RSC 1985, c 22 (4th Supp) or matters at issue in the proceedings,” she added.
Montreal-based newspaper Le Devoir, Wagner said in French that some participants in the Freedom Convoy protests were “remote-controlled” people looking to short-circuit the political system, something that “does not fill me with good feelings.”
“What we saw recently on Wellington Street, here, is the budding start of anarchy where some people decided to take other citizens hostage, to take the law into their own hands, to disregard the system … I find that worrying,” he said in French.
Canada’s top judge also argued that the occupation of downtown Ottawa was fuelled in part by a “certain ignorance” and a “bad understanding” of Canadian law, the newspaper reported.
Then in a press conference in June 2022, the chief justice described the impact of the Freedom Convoy’s blockades on many Ottawa business and individuals — particularly “the most vulnerable” — as “deplorable.”"
What do you think - any bias?
https://t.co/N4zwvi3PU0
These amazing words were sent to us from a friend and we couldn’t agree more.
We’ve stood by Helen since the very beginning and will continue to support this wonderful, brave woman.
First and foremost, Helen is so grateful for the prayers and support.
She is in this challenge as she believes in the principles of policing; preserve peace, prevent crime, protect life and property. There are countless amazing officers risking their lives daily to do just that.
When unlawful orders are given by police supervisors, officers must challenge them; respectfully, however with the authority all officers are granted by law.
This challenging time in Helen's life in dealing with the allegations against her, will not break her. The financial costs are tremendous however, whoever concocted the ridiculous, unprecedented Discreditable Conduct charge against Helen, simply doesn't know her. Perhaps they thought she'd take a plea and hunker down quietly.
They didn't realize that Helen doesn't worship money, she worships God.
She doesn't love money, she loves life!
Truth, Love and Compassion will prevail.
🚨BREAKING: Ottawa Police command officers pushing new internal charges against Detective Helen Grus over documentary appearance.
Two highly placed sources, neither of them Detective Grus nor anyone on her legal team, advise this reporter that @OttawaPolice command has held two meetings in April concerning Grus’s appearance in the coming major documentary Silencing Detective Grus, as well as other online shows and news media.
I am satisfied the information is credible.
One of these same sources told me in September 2022 that Grus would soon be unsuspended and ordered back to work at the Robbery Squad. That was two weeks before Grus or her lawyer were informed.
The source was correct.
Now I am told Ottawa Police command officers are divided. Some are pushing new internal disciplinary charges against Detective Grus. Others are advising OPS to leave the situation alone.
More to come.