@sarobertson_ Dang if only there were some sort of body comprised of people citizens and workers of the nation chose to protect their interests and the nation’s. Like a powerful group of people that could govern and whip foreign business into alignment. Man, that’d be preeeeeeeetty dang sweet.
@2L0STln3I3 @MrVinland@CanadianPolling Nenshi has no historic NDP ties and won leadership by severing membership links with the federal wing to court Calgary conservatives. His past letters where he fought to freeze city union wages were exposed. He is an institutionalist Liberal. You’re comparing this…
@2L0STln3I3 @MrVinland@CanadianPolling 🤣 secret DSA caucus? Beck literally refused to meet her own federal leader. Nenshi openly courts Calgary corporate voters. They don't copy the US leftthey act as institutionalist center-left Liberals.
@TragicallyGord@MurdocNichols@SamLenSports I have a feeling the small number of execs would collude to make this really only ever work in their favour. Players are already at the whim of these teams in most cases, which is why the contract stipulations for nmc and ntc are highly sought after and ‘add value’ to it.
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Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.