The government is planning to shut down hearings into Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, with no further debate or discussion on potential amendments to the bill. It has just placed a motion on the Order Paper that would limit today’s committee meeting to only 30 minutes for standard clause-by-clause review. After that, it plans to cancel all further debate or discussion on any other amendments. The committee will instead be required to vote on all remaining amendments with no further debate, discussions or questions to officials. In fact, the substance of the amendments will remain secret and will not even be disclosed to the public. The government’s intent is clearly to complete clause-by-clause review tonight to ensure that the bill passes through the House of Commons by the end of the week
Yesterday, the government introduced privacy reforms that shuts down the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s role in private sector privacy regulation. Today, it is shutting down hearings into one of the biggest privacy threats in years. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree had committed to amendments during the lawful access hearings, but this move means that only secret government amendments that will not be made public during the hearing will pass. Opposition parties have submitted many amendments based on testimony from the Privacy Commissioner, bar associations, security companies, and privacy experts. These include potential changes to the rules on mandatory metadata retention, risks to security and encryption, and privacy safeguards. None of these amendments will even be made public, let alone open to debate and discussion. Weeks of hearings and public concern tossed aside by the government in a rush to shut down debate and consideration of amendments to a deeply flawed, risky legislative plan.
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I am continuously amazed at the behavior of what should be a democratic, liberal government who keeps acting as a dictatorship that is continuously trying to erode their citizens privacy. It doesn’t help that Canadians are so complacent and do not react to this in any meaningful manner.
Canadians will wake up, but it will be too late.
They will wake up when they realize that they have to identify themselves for everything they do on the internet. The police are going to have fun.
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Is there something we’re missing? Why the rush? (with this bill and others) Are “they” afraid of something?
If you want something done right you take your time, don’t rush things, consult with everyone that has something to say, especially if there’s warnings all over the place.
Now what? What are the next steps?
They don’t want the proper discussion to take place because it will end with the bill being defeated again, like last year.
The next steps are to protest at Ottawa.
If enough protest for long enough, it will work. Which is why they brutalized the Freedom Convoy.
And this is why they will use the full power of the state, from Kindergarten teachers to school crossing guards, to the military to make sure it never happens.
Reasons to vote them out.
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Globalism, they are following the unelected EU socialist agenda of control. Carney is a globalist and UN Climate envoy who does not like to be questioned. When CBDC are instituted they will control you bank accounts. China 2.0
Canadians are some of the biggest fools when it comes to voting. They vote for these far left, radical extremist woke people and then wonder why there were consequences for it. And they voted for the same incompetent party again after having the worst PM ever Justin Trudeau. I think you just can’t fix stupid sometimes and Canada has an abundance of it
You must be a troll – why else would you still be crying about Justin Trudeau? He’s not the PM that was elected.
If people won’t even read 1984 or the Gulag Archipelago, what are the chances the people will take to the streets to oppose the constant onslaught of increasingly totalitarian measures as Canada slides into the EU/Commonwealth new communist polity.
At least watch the Yuri Bezmenov interview from CBC in 1984 to understand what has happened to us. Maybe search Rumble for Bezmenov on Demoralization.
Then call your travel agent.
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