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Canada Tables Bill C-22 Expanding Digital Surveillance

Canada Tables Bill C-22 Expanding Digital Surveillance

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Bill C-22 is exactly the kind of smart, necessary legislation that keeps Canadians safe in a digital age where criminals exploit every technological gap. Law enforcement has been hamstrung for decades while child predators, human traffickers and foreign threats operate freely online — that ends now. Every Five Eyes ally already has lawful access powers, and Canada finally catching up isn't surveillance overreach, it's basic public safety.

Bill C-22 still threatens Canadians' privacy by lowering the legal standard to mere "reasonable grounds to suspect" and forcing telecoms to build backdoors that hackers and foreign regimes can exploit. Privacy lawyers confirm only a handful of concerns from the original bill were actually fixed, leaving surveillance infrastructure that — once built — won't go away. Tweaks to scope don't fix a framework that lets the state access sensitive personal data with dangerously weak judicial oversight.

Politically motivated bill designed to target political enemies...


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