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.

PoliticallyBill C-22 is a politically motivated billsurveillance designedexpansion dressed up as public safety. After years of government-driven crises, Ottawa now claims sweeping new powers to targettrack political“extremism,” enemies...a label routinely applied to nationalist and right-leaning views. Forcing telecoms to store Canadians’ metadata for a year while expanding CSIS tools creates a system aimed less at crime than at monitoring dissent.