With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access Bill, Bill C-22 is currently moving forward quickly to a vote despite the many, many criticisms civil liberty groups and the tech industry have hurled at it.

As we’ve discussed before, Bill C-22 is dangerous on multiple levels. It pushes for requirements for metadata retention, expands information sharing with foreign governments, and establishes a mechanism that allows Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety to demand that companies create backdoors, effectively breaking encryption. That mechanism was a key facet of Part 2 in Bill C-22, and the government prevented it from being independently debated.

In a deep analysis of the bill, Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association detail every one of flaws of this proposal, concluding that most elements are unsalvageable.

A wide range of tech companies agree. Signal, Apple, Google, and several VPN providers oppose the bill, and some have said they’d likely be forced to either cut Canadians off from certain features or shut down services in Canada altogether.

The Canadian government wants this dangerous, complicated, overreaching bill passed before June 19. Bill C-22 is riddled with privacy problems that affect millions of people. It should be debated and studied fully, not jammed through on an arbitrary deadline.

OpenMedia is offering a tool for Canadians to contact their elected representatives about the bill. Actions taken on OpenMedia's website are governed by OpenMedia's privacy policy, not EFF's.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PP is too far right for most Canadians who generally speaking are centre right/left.

Carney is just doing the Ratchet Effect for Canada. By governing as a conservative, Carney is getting people acclimatized to Pierre Poilievre's stances. Progressives may get the odd bone thrown to them. Come election time, Canadians are going to hear "Vote Liberal to stop the Conservatives!" and "A vote for NDP is splitting the left!" Liberals will continue to move to the right knowing that their fear mongering will keep progressives in line. Meanwhile the Overton Window will continue to move right cause the Liberals will block anything progressive to chase those sweet, sweet conservative voters who will only vote conservative anyways.

[–] lotmo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean that's what I'm saying. I don't regret voting Carney over PP and even NDP at the time cause frankly I did not like Jagmeet at all. But Avi is promising and well liberal support is definitely falling due to the more conservative policies. However I still do not consider Carney and PP the same type of conservatism since politics are always a spectrum.