A Google exec warned Bill C-22 "goes beyond any regime that I'm familiar with" because it gives government broad secret powers without judicial oversight.
Google says it was not consulted before the bill was tabled.
Canadians are now hearing the warnings loud and clear: Bill C-22 would give Mark Carney's Liberal government sweeping surveillance powers over your information.
Conservatives are fighting back. Stop the Liberal surveillance agenda: https://t.co/VFHssaqJBx
PLUS has obtained FOI records revealing years of BC government negotiations with the Tahltan toward a sweeping “Foundation Agreement” involving land and governance transfers, Aboriginal title recognition, and Crown authority across 11% of B.C.
More than 400 pages were withheld from disclosure.
The public still has not been told what this Tahltan-BC agreement is or whether it has already been finalized, even though released records included completion timelines that have already passed.
This is not a treaty process. It is certainly not a public process. And it may be one of the most significant governance and land restructurings in modern B.C. history. #bcpoli
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Why are Signal, Apple, VPNs and the US Congress raising alarm bells about Canada’s lawful access plans? My post on the privacy and cybersecurity risks to Canadians with Bill C-22’s two-headed monster of metadata retention and new surveillance capabilities.
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@MsMelChen@kevin_inalberta Yep, agreed. They’ve embedded themselves at all levels (even municipal) and the current political climate will brand anyone a racist for questioning those who aren’t white.
Bill C-22 should be considered treason.
Whoever made this Bill is clearly involved in foreign espionage. Imagine going into China and passing a bill that allows all this in Bill C-22 and not getting the death penalty:
11 reason's every Canadian is fucked with Bill C-22 passing:
1. Judicial warrants can authorize covert installation of tracking or transmission-data-recording computer programs on a suspect's device, planting and data onto your device.
2. Civilian employees of any police force (including foreign ones) can now issue warrantless demands for telecoms to confirm a Canadian's subscription detail, opening the ledger to overseas agents without judicial gatekeepers.
3. Warrantless "confirmation of service demands" by peace officers, public officers, or those civilians force providers to verify subscriber data on mere suspicion, bypassing traditional safeguards.
4. Exigent-circumstances powers let officers seize data or issue demands without warrant whenever they deem urgency pressing, subjective haste trumping Charter scrutiny.
5. Production orders for subscriber information now issue on the lower "reasonable grounds to suspect" threshold, diluting the evidentiary bar courts once demanded.
6. Court-authorized requests to foreign entities pull Canadian citizens' data from overseas servers, while foreign production orders gain enforcement here, creating a seamless transatlantic data net.
7. Ministerial orders compel providers to surrender subscriber or "other" information on ministerial terms alone, with only administrative review.
8. Providers must build and test "access capabilities" potentially including software features or backdoors, allowing police (even civilians from other forces) to probe those systems for perpetual access.
9. Immunity for voluntary disclosures and public-data scooping lets providers hand over information freely, greasing the pipeline without compulsion.
10. Gag orders and rushed reviews silence providers for up to a year while challenges get mere days, keeping the governed blind to the gathering.
11. Expanded computer-data warrants cover unknown future devices or apps the target might use, pre-authorizing surveillance shadows.
This isn’t a government “protecting citizens” this is a rogue government operating Canada.
And before you say "I'll use a VPN", Bill C-22 can mandate backdoors and mandatory logging for all VPNs that provide service to Canadians. This goes far beyond consistent interfaces and protocols for executing court-ordered intercept orders.
DOCUMENTS @PrivyCouncilCa disclose PM misled media about private conversations with China President: "Human rights & foreign interference were not brought up proactively by @MarkJCarney."
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