Gary Anandasangaree needs to lose his seat over this horrible bill.
It’s so surprising that he is insisting on this bill even though almost the whole English speaking world is warning that it is shit. Is it pride? Is he getting paid to do it? What the fuck
Canada has a case of Carneymania even though the liberals are passing unpopular bills. 47% public support is too high for Mark Carney’s neoliberalism.
We are in this rediculous combination of situations where for a few grand, AI can sniff out vulnerabilities in software that a few years ago even the best expert teams didnt find, and at the same time, we have elected representatives deliberately weakening software security and introducing new vulnerabilities via law.
This will not reduce crime.
The secrecy requirements is also a terrible thing for transparency and accountability.
Can’t wait for a ministerial order to request broad data without proper oversight. /sIf the government needs to operate in the shadow to maintain law and order, they aren’t better than the criminals they’re fighting against. We don’t need this bill to accomplish public safety, there’s already an established process and it’s called a warrant.
Write letters to your senators voicing your opposition to surveillance bill c-22.
This is terrible.
Also, we need Signal.
Practically, what would this mean for an end user? Will Signal be forced to simply pull the app from Google Play and iTunes for Canadians? I sideload the APK through Obtainium (which can source directly from signal.org) anyway. And unless the government makes it possible to go after end users directly, why would I stop? It’s my device, I should be able to run whatever code on it I damn well please.
Or will Signal be required to reject Canadian messaging traffic entirely?
They may start rejecting Canadian numbers.
Just the act of pulling it from apple and googles stores will basically kill it in Canada because suddenly none of your contacts will be on it.
Signal is the first private messenger that managed to get mainstream enough to get some network effect going. There are plenty of alternatives if you only want to talk to privacy nerds who jump through hoops sideload apps from alternative stores.
For example like what apps? Matrix? Molly?
Oh well, one app gets replaced with another, life goes on. Bye.
So, someone please educate me here. Doesn’t law enforcement already have access to digital information during investigations? I think companies already retain metadata, even if they say they don’t. And, wouldn’t it be like any investigation where you would need a court order to get that information?
Bill C-22, formally the Lawful Access Act, 2026, is a proposed Canadian federal law about giving police and intelligence agencies access to digital information during investigations. It would update rules for obtaining subscriber information and other data, and require some service providers to support lawful access requests. Parliament of Canada
The bill is controversial because critics say its provisions could expand surveillance, require companies to retain certain metadata, and pressure providers to make their systems accessible to authorities—potentially weakening encryption. The government presents it as a way to help law enforcement investigate serious crimes.
