Scot ☕

Reach for the stars. Sounds like great advice, until you actually try it and get the the shit kicked out of you by security.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

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Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.

[Bubbleslake @bubbleslake]

Crime Stoppers cyber breach just exposed how even "anonymous" tip systems can fail potentially doxxing tipsters on the dark web and putting lives at risk.
Now imagine that on steroids: Bill C-22 would force telecoms and tech companies to hold all our call, text, and internet metadata for up to a YEAR.

One breach. Millions of Canadians' communication patterns, contacts, locations, and habits exposed. No more expectation of privacy in everyday life.
This isn't about catching criminals; it's turning every citizen into a data point in a giant, hackable database.
Now, we see the RCMP networks and tip platforms hit. Why create even bigger targets while pushing more surveillance and online regulation bills?
@mgeist
@FrankCaputoKTN

[Kanwar Sierah, RCIC @KanwarSierah]

‼️ 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Canada approved 𝟭𝟯 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 in April 2026

At this speed, 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 work permits will be approved by the end of 2026.

Already crossed 𝟰𝟬𝟬𝗸 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝟰 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀.

👇𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲:

👉 TFWP: https://t.co/Dj1dcBQduh

👉 IMP: https://t.co/mHGVnrbchs

[The Reclamare @TheReclamare]

This is surprisingly worse than it appears for Americans

Canada's RCMP has signed a secretive MOU with China's Ministry of Public Security which includes information sharing

Any USA citizens metadata could be shared with them

Credit @Southpontiac for thought idea
@howardlutnick @marcorubio @SenMullin @DAGToddBlanche @AnitaAnandMP

[Scot ☕ @unexplodedscot]

@mmysticbloom @Tablesalt13 A big database of identify info also seems like something that's going to get targeted https://t.co/b6q2nlZYze

[Scot ☕ @unexplodedscot]

@mmysticbloom @Tablesalt13 Ok. Post your banking info, SIN, credit cards & alarm codes. Financial info will be much easier to grab if these abject morons start forcing backdoors into encryption. The CRA alone has had 42,000+ individual breeches since 2020. Plenty to hide, if you enjoy staying solvent

[Dane Lloyd @DaneLloydMP]

Imagine if the Government told every home builder in Canada that they needed to create a master key so Government could enter every home. Thats what the Liberals are doing except instead of your home it’s targeting the entire infrastructure of the digital world. Infrastructure protected by encryption.

Last night the Liberals rammed through Bill C-22. While there are good parts to the Bill that Conservatives support to help law enforcement, we don’t support increasing surveillance powers on law abiding Canadians.

Even if Government never abuses these new powers, the vulnerabilities that could be created could be used by criminal groups and hostile foreign governments to break encryption.

Compromising the integrity of encryption compromises the security and privacy of Canadians.

[Scot ☕ @unexplodedscot]

@nationalpost "run by non-Indigenous criminals and staffed by foreign nationals" I've occcasionally watched a similar organization on CPAC. They seem very keen on controlling the internet lately.

[Blonde Bigot @BlondeBigot11]

Canada approved 13 work permits every working minute in April 2026
Over 1 million a year at this rate.

How’s our unemployment rate, especially for youth?

This is wild. How are we not rioting?

[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.

[Eric Cartman @EricCartman9876]

Mass immigration is the number one reason why young local Newfoundlanders can’t afford to buy a house. #nlpoli #cdnpoli #govnl #nltraffic #nlhousing @GovNL @NLHousing @TonyWakehamNL @nlliberals @NTVNewsNL @VOCMOpenline

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

The government has pushed through its motion to end debate on Bill C-22, forcing the committee into a late night hearing going on right now that no one will watch or can follow to pass the bill and send to the House. An absolute democratic embarrassment.
https://t.co/brRAEXxaWO

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

You're gutting the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and mandating metadata retention and backdoors to data

C'mon man

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

Shocking, heart-breaking report of systemic rape of vulnerable British girls by organized gangs of predominantly Pakistani-heritage Muslim men.

Massive institutional failure by law enforcement and social services due to political correctness and perceived racism

[blinkers 🏴‍☠️🚀 @bloodshotblnkrs]

@TheTorontoSun @HunterTOSun @CTVNews @GlobalTV @CBC @theprovince
Why aren't you reporting on this?
This should be the top story everywhere.

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

Hey ‼️ digital rights advocates worldwide

The Carney 🇨🇦 govt is pushing thru parliament a flurry of bills that are among the worst I and my colleagues have ever seen. They will create security risks, erode civil liberties, enhance mass surveillance, and undermine oversight.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

“What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. If you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.”

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Government’s vision of social media, AI and privacy regulation: Super-regulator that strips power from Privacy Commish and leaves 5 people to set the rules, enforce, investigate, litigate, and advocate with their own rules of evidence and less independence
https://t.co/6dYV60v7Xf

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

Tobi Lutke. Founder of Shopify. Canada’s most successful tech company.🇨🇦

On Bill C-22, C-8, and C-9:
“These bills constitute a total erosion of Canada’s basic liberties.

They interlock into making Canada essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.”

$1 trillion in capital already fled Canada in a decade.

Now the builders are saying the same thing out loud.

🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #BillC8 #Canada #Tech

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

Professor Geist is being polite. I'm watching the SECU hearings in real time and the Bill C-22 is exactly the same deeply problematic Bill that was tabled by the Minister. Not one word has changed. The spokesperson is full of shit.