I'm a freelancer who got hit with a $7,800 tax bill I thought was going to be $3,500.
So I spent a year building the tool I wish existed.
Here's what I made 🧵
Thank you for speaking out about this. C-22 is an existential threat to our entire business. The no-logs privacy we offer users around the world isn't just a nice-to-have, it's the core principle our VPN is built around. If C-22 passes then we are left with no choice but to close shop or move our HQ out of Canada.
We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data.
Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens.
Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.
Today, 18 million Canadians received a GST grocery rebate.
My family pays more GST than the average Canadian, yet we don’t get a dime back.
We’re apparently too “well off” to qualify, but not too well off to keep footing the bill while politicians spend taxpayer money like it’s monopoly money.
Make it make sense.