Worth a read. The new federal laws also include:

▪ create a new offence of coercive control in intimate relationships, targeting patterns of threats, isolation, or manipulation before violence escalates

▪ make it a crime to threaten to distribute non-consensual intimate images, including sexual deepfakes

▪ strengthen victims’ rights to be treated with respect and have their interests in a timely trial considered
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116789947926437732
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Here's the rush of Liberal bills that will establish Canada's digital cage:

C-8 - Cyber Security (Royal Assent, becoming law this week) This new law gives the government broad secret-order powers under the rationale of cybersecurity over telecoms, banks, and energy companies, including permitting government ministers to direct telecom providers to suspend services or disable equipment by order.

C-9 - Hate Speech (Passed Parliament and awaiting Royal Assent) This new law amends the Criminal Code to provide new measures to manage hate propaganda and hate crime. It redefines hate, criminalizes intimidation or blocking access to schools, places of worship, and other community spaces, bans certain hate and terrorism symbols, and streamlines the justice system to administer hate-propaganda charges. Critics state the law has the potential to criminalize peaceful protests, chill free speech, and hinder Muslim and Islamic and even Christian religious expression, potentially exposing faith leaders to legal action for preaching traditional beliefs. So many Christians have spoken out against this one.

C-11 - Broadcasting Act amendments (Royal Assent, became law in April 2023) This Trudeau-era law established new broad measures for the CRTC to regulate digital content in Internet video and streaming services. The CRTC can now compel foreign streaming services to make expenditures towards the production of Canadian content.

C-18 - Online News (Royal Assent, became law in June 2023) This Trudeau-era law established a framework for the CRTC to regulate digital news content on online platforms. It empowered the CRTC to compel digital news intermediaries (i.e. Google search engine, Meta - Facebook to pay Canadian news sources for content accessed on their platforms - resulting in Meta blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram services.

C-22 - Lawful Access (Currently in the Senate) This legislation enhances warrantless access and police and security agencies surveillance of an individual's digital content. It requires telecom and Internet providers to retain user metadata and to install "backdoor" systems enabling government access. Conservative MPS, tech firms, civil liberties groups, and a number of progressives here have all raised objections to the potential overreach of government and security agencies.

C-34 - Digital Security (Introduced last week) This legislation creates mandatory identification controls (either government ID or face scans) for access to the Internet and bans social media for persons under 16 years of age. It also creates a new Digital Safety Commission with sweeping (undefined) powers to set the online access rules, manage compliance of platforms (everything from Facebook to Snapchat), and approve or deny exemptions. The commission will have the authority to instruct platforms to censor content deemed to undermine "social stability" - defined by the government.

C-36 - Digital Privacy (Introduced this week) This legislation empowers the new Digital Safety Minister with sweeping (undefined) powers to regulate digital content. It transfers authority from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (an independent agent of Parliament) to the new cabinet-appointed commission (created by Bill C-34). Critics fear government overreach and abuse, as the legislation has the potential to usurp private sector privacy laws.

Future internet use in Canada is going to suck hard.

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Cdns are saying no to:

Surveillance backdoors in every digital service we use;

A year-long database of every Canadian's private metadata … which law enforcem't can access *without warrant*;

Privacy protections the govt can quietly redefine away;

A faster path for foreign govts to access our data.

Note: the govt just prematurely ended debate on C-22 … & is hiding their amendments!

Sign the letter, now, please!
https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
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@Paulatics Help! 😱 Can you help block this nonsense, please? 🙏

https://cosocial.ca/@deborahh/116765397657620085
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WTF? 😤 #billc22 #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics

"no further debate … on potential amendments to the bill. … limit today’s committee meeting to 30 minutes for standard clause-by-clause review. … the committee will be required to vote on all remaining amendments with no further debate, discussions, questions to officials. In fact, the substance of the amendments will remain secret & will not even be disclosed to the public. … to ensure the bill passes … by the end of the week."
https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/116763026588927828

A step in the right direction!

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #climatecrisis #carney

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/16/news/carney-government-lawsuit-climate-policy

"taking the world as it is, not as we wish it were". Fair enough, but governments should also try to nudge things in the direction that we wish they were. I don't see #carney doing that.

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/16/opinion/mark-carney-electrification-climate-policy

I still don't think that a ban on #socialmedia for under 16s is the right approach. But the intent to wrest control from #siliconvalley is a good one. This is a good read.

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https://thewalrus.ca/canada-joins-global-fight-to-ban-teens-from-social-media/

A good read about the history of #defense spending in #canada and how we move forward in this new world

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #military

https://thewalrus.ca/ottawa-wants-to-build-a-war-machine/