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[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

From late last night where the Liberals shut down all debate & discussion regarding Bill C-22

Frank Caputo @FrankCaputoKTN lets it be known how absolutely abhorrent it is that the Liberals have shut down all debate & discussion regarding Bill C-22 which has unbelievable privacy & constitutional issues. They just pushed through amendment after amendment with votes.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Tech companies on Bill C-22

• Shopify @Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke @tobi warned that Bill C-22 could become a “death blow to Canadian tech viability” and make Canada “essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.”

• Signal's @signalapp VP of Strategy & Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari stated, "In its current form, Bill C-22 would convert the everyday tools Canadians rely on into a sprawling, insecure surveillance apparatus."

• Apple @Apple Senior Director of User Privacy & Child Safety Erik Neuenschwander warned that Bill C-22 allows the Government of Canada to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products - “something Apple will never do.”

• Google's @Google Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Jeanette Patell warned that Bill C-22 “goes well beyond lawful access regimes in other G7 democracies, and risks creating new surveillance infrastructure that would introduce serious security vulnerabilities, undermine user trust and hinder our ability to innovate and offer pro-privacy technologies.”

• Meta @Meta warned that Bill C-22 could require companies to build or maintain capabilities that weaken encryption and that could force providers to "install government spyware directly on their systems."

• Proton VPN @ProtonVPN General Manager David Peterson warned that complying with Bill C-22 could conflict with Swiss and European privacy obligations. He said, “Complying with foreign surveillance orders without Swiss legal process is a criminal offence...We’ll defend our Canadian users and never compromise them.”

• NordVPN @NordVPN stated that “there isn’t a scenario in which we would compromise our no-logs architecture or encryption protections" and that it would consider limiting or removing its Canadian presence.

• ExpressVPN @expressvpn warned, “Legislation that mandates data retention or technical access, however well-intentioned, undermines the security that millions of users rely on."

• DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo stated that "if the bill passes, we will be forced to stop offering our VPN in Canada."

• Windscribe @windscribecom stated, “...they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens."

Privacy protects citizens. It also protects innovation.

Note: These statements were made before Bill C-22 was amended on June 18, 2026. In our view, those amendments did not meaningfully address concerns raised by tech companies, privacy experts, or civil liberties organizations. The companies above are free to tell Canadians whether the amendments have changed their assessment.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Bill C-34 will affect every Canadian. Age verification. AI regulation. A new Digital Safety Commission. Most Canadians have never heard of it. Here's what it will do.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

https://t.co/cWe6g3JTJR

[John Brassard @JohnBrassardCPC]

If you’re not paying attention to what the Carney Liberals are doing to create a surveillance state on its citizens with Bill C-22, you need to watch this! Expert after expert is warning against what this Bill does! The loss of your rights and freedoms happen incrementally. Ask any Eastern European who lived it! #cdnpoli

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

That expert would be me. To see a Liberal cabinet minister adopt the Vic Toews’ “you’re with us or with the criminals” style language on lawful access should be the signal that the government has lost its way on Bill C-22.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

VPN companies will leave Canada. The government will force companies to retain your data for one year. The legal threshold for police access to your data will be lowered. Meanwhile, the federal government is cancelling all debate on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, in order to pass this legislation before Parliament adjourns on Friday, June 19. Now, more than ever before, Canadians who care about privacy must urge their Members of Parliament to defeat Bill C-22. This is a critical moment in our history: will Canada be a free nation or a surveillance state? Canadians have defeated "lawful access" legislation before, and we must do so again.

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

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

What point does a society have to fall to before there’s a civil war? Because this seems past that point.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I've ever read in my life.

There is no close second... and it's worse than you could ever imagine.

Here's everything you need to know 🧵

[tobi lutke @tobi]

These bills, along with C-22 and C-9 constitute a total erosion in Canada’s basic liberties. They interlock into making Canada essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

The Government of Canada postponed the 2025 federal budget until November. But it is rushing Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, through committee before Parliament adjourns on June 19. Apparently, expanded surveillance powers are more urgent than the federal budget. Make it make sense.

[Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn]

It should alarm every Canadian that the primary use the Liberals have made of their new, backroom, bribe-bought majority has been to ram through legislation that censors the internet, spies on citizens, and lays the groundwork for a virtual surveillance state.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Society collectively needs to stop making excuses for awful behaviour.

There are BILLIONS of people around the world who grew up in suboptimal conditions and they don't use it as an excuse to be a criminal or degenerate.

Tolerance of evil isn't a virtue.

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

CBSA backlog grows to 577,739 deportation cases, including more than 5,500 convicted criminals

The Canada Border Services Agency is struggling to deport over half a million individuals who have no right to be in Canada.

https://t.co/Lh4TAhsxzq

[Michael Cooper, MP @MichaelCooperMP]

OUTRAGEOUS

The Carney Govt BACKDATED the "spaceport" lease FUNNELLING $20M tax dollars to the nearly-bankrupt Maritime Launch Services for NO WORK.

After this BAILOUT the Board Chair IMMEDIATELY SOLD his previously worthless shares POCKETING $1.8 MILLION.

TOTAL CORRUPTION.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Canada is a textbook case of how bad policy turns a resource‑rich nation into a declining one: attack energy, overtax work, bury business in regulation, and then act surprised when growth stalls and separatism rises.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

So let me get this straight...

Canada is in a recession—the only G7 country currently in one. Unemployment is up. Inflation is rising. Food insecurity is at a record high.

Yet the highest proportion of Canadians since 2017 now say the country is on the right track.

That's either a remarkable display of optimism—or a sign that many Canadians aren't getting the full economic story from the news they consume.

[Larry Brock @LarryBrockMP]

If the poison pill in Liberal Bill C-16 is allowed to pass, it could mean that ALL 17 of these alleged extortionists, who aren’t even Canadians, will be given significantly reduced sentences so that they can avoid deportation.

Stop the crime. Deport the extortionists. Now.

[Dan Mazier @DanMazierMP]

BREAKING

The Parliamentary Budget Officer has revealed that nearly 74,000 REJECTED asylum claimants are entitled to deluxe health benefits through the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP).

Deluxe supplemental health benefits like vision care, home care, and physiotherapy now account for more than half of all IFHP costs.

These are benefits that Canadians who have paid into the system their entire lives can’t access.

Counselling costs have grown from less than 1% of supplementary spending in 2016 to 11% in 2025.

Last year alone, taxpayers paid $38.79 million for counselling and $12.41 million for home visits for asylum seekers under the program.

This damning information comes at a time when six million Canadians can’t access the basic service of a family doctor.

The PBO also revealed the average length of IFHP coverage for asylum claimants is now a staggering four years.

It is undeniable that as the backlog grows, rejected asylum claimants continue adding pressure to a health care system where Canadians are already facing long wait times for care.

The Liberals must explain to Canadians why asylum seekers whose refugee claims were rejected, face enforceable removal orders, and in some cases fail to appear for removal, continue to receive deluxe, taxpayer-funded health benefits while they avoid leaving Canada.