shockedcanadian
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THIS is Canada.
Are you waking up America? They see the state is collapsing and the Creepy Ones are being exposed just as the Stasi were, so they view internet access as the great equalizer that allows citizens to share with Americans what is REALLY going on.
Stop listening to them and start listening to the Whistleblowers, Canada is going full CCP. Wake up America, it appears Canada and the U.K are following the path of China...the question is, "why"?
nationalpost.com
Among the western democratic powers, Canada is quickly emerging as a leader in internet regulation and state surveillance.
The federal government, whose efforts are encouraged by a mostly compliant public, is driving more and more of the human experience into a digital realm. This digital realm is a vast infrastructure of legislation, law enforcement and corporate partnerships in which people are becoming the objects of government analysis, modelling and manipulation.
Bill C-2, which the Liberals tabled in June, would have allowed government agencies to demand personal data from online service providers and from any other organization that provides certain services to the public. As nearly every organization provides some kind of service to the public, however small, it seems that Ottawa’s goal was for every Canadian organization to fall within the shadow of its authority.
But now the government appears to be retreating from this astonishing expansion of its lawful access powers. Bill C-22, introduced on March 12, would empower law enforcement to demand only that telecommunications providers (not everyone providing a service to the public) confirm whether they are providing services to a particular person. This change is a win, due in no small part to opposition from civil liberties groups in Canada.
Still, the second half of C-22 takes up C-2’s ambition for “anyone and anything internet” to whir as a cog in Ottawa’s growing surveillance machinery. The bill would allow the state to force electronic service providers (Rogers, Google, a neighbourhood IT firm, a startup social media platform, etc.) to develop capacity for extracting and organizing information for government or law enforcement review, to install devices that allow government and law enforcement to access information, and to retain metadata for up to one year.
Bill C-8, now before committee, would use cybersecurity as the pretext for empowering government to direct telecommunications service providers (e.g., Bell, Rogers, Telus and their many subsidiaries) to remove all products by a specified person from their networks or facilities. If Bill C-8 passes, the minister of industry could even issue secret orders to telecommunications providers to “deplatform” individual Canadians based on alleged telecommunications “threats.”
In the background, all the while, Ottawa and financial institutions continue to flirt with the ideas of a central bank digital currency and a national digital identity framework. The Bank of Canada makes no secret of its continued research into a digital dollar, in case Canadians “at some point in the future … decide they want or need a digital dollar.” Canadians’ opinions are wilfully ignored. As recently as 2023, 92 per cent of 89,423 respondents to a Bank of Canada poll stated that they prefer traditional payment methods over a digital dollar. And, 82 per cent of respondents strongly disagreed that the central bank should research or develop capacity for a digital dollar. And yet this research plods on, under some ivory-tower optimism that Canadians will soon rethink their backwardness.
Are you waking up America? They see the state is collapsing and the Creepy Ones are being exposed just as the Stasi were, so they view internet access as the great equalizer that allows citizens to share with Americans what is REALLY going on.
Stop listening to them and start listening to the Whistleblowers, Canada is going full CCP. Wake up America, it appears Canada and the U.K are following the path of China...the question is, "why"?
John Carpay: Liberals have Canada leading the West in state surveillance
New bills would allow the government to intrude on privacy and secretly boot individuals from the internet if thought to be a 'threat'
nationalpost.com
Among the western democratic powers, Canada is quickly emerging as a leader in internet regulation and state surveillance.
The federal government, whose efforts are encouraged by a mostly compliant public, is driving more and more of the human experience into a digital realm. This digital realm is a vast infrastructure of legislation, law enforcement and corporate partnerships in which people are becoming the objects of government analysis, modelling and manipulation.
Bill C-2, which the Liberals tabled in June, would have allowed government agencies to demand personal data from online service providers and from any other organization that provides certain services to the public. As nearly every organization provides some kind of service to the public, however small, it seems that Ottawa’s goal was for every Canadian organization to fall within the shadow of its authority.
But now the government appears to be retreating from this astonishing expansion of its lawful access powers. Bill C-22, introduced on March 12, would empower law enforcement to demand only that telecommunications providers (not everyone providing a service to the public) confirm whether they are providing services to a particular person. This change is a win, due in no small part to opposition from civil liberties groups in Canada.
Still, the second half of C-22 takes up C-2’s ambition for “anyone and anything internet” to whir as a cog in Ottawa’s growing surveillance machinery. The bill would allow the state to force electronic service providers (Rogers, Google, a neighbourhood IT firm, a startup social media platform, etc.) to develop capacity for extracting and organizing information for government or law enforcement review, to install devices that allow government and law enforcement to access information, and to retain metadata for up to one year.
Bill C-8, now before committee, would use cybersecurity as the pretext for empowering government to direct telecommunications service providers (e.g., Bell, Rogers, Telus and their many subsidiaries) to remove all products by a specified person from their networks or facilities. If Bill C-8 passes, the minister of industry could even issue secret orders to telecommunications providers to “deplatform” individual Canadians based on alleged telecommunications “threats.”
In the background, all the while, Ottawa and financial institutions continue to flirt with the ideas of a central bank digital currency and a national digital identity framework. The Bank of Canada makes no secret of its continued research into a digital dollar, in case Canadians “at some point in the future … decide they want or need a digital dollar.” Canadians’ opinions are wilfully ignored. As recently as 2023, 92 per cent of 89,423 respondents to a Bank of Canada poll stated that they prefer traditional payment methods over a digital dollar. And, 82 per cent of respondents strongly disagreed that the central bank should research or develop capacity for a digital dollar. And yet this research plods on, under some ivory-tower optimism that Canadians will soon rethink their backwardness.
