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From 2026-6-19

"Midnight Madness: The Government Rushes Lawful Access Bill Through the House Without Debate or a Recorded Vote"
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/midnight-madness/

I really hope that the Senate sends C22 back to the house but I'm not confident.
The only ammendment that makes sense is to gut Part 2.

Midnight Madness: The Government Rushes Lawful Access Bill Through the House Without Debate or a Recorded Vote - Michael Geist

Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, passed the House of Commons yesterday with the government invoking a single motion to approve several bills without further debate or individual votes as MPs raced for home for the summer. Bill C-22 will now head to the Senate, where it can expect a rougher ride when study begins in the fall. Rather than use the final days of the House session to answer the privacy, security, and oversight concerns raised by the Privacy Commissioner, academics, technology companies, and civil society groups, the government spent the time ensuring it would not have to, rushing the bill through committee, cutting off debate, and maligning critics with tactics that they once decried when in opposition.

Michael Geist
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From 2026-6-18

"Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill

Quote:
"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."

Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill

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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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From 2026-6-18

"Bill C-22 Amendments Fall Short on Encryption and Cybersecurity Risks
Half Measures Fail to Fix Sweeping Surveillance Powers"
https://progresschamber.org/news/bill-c-22-amendments-fall-short-on-encryption-and-cybersecurity-risks/

Quote:
"The bill does not broaden the 'systemic vulnerability' definition to protect consumer devices and operating systems from encryption backdoors.
It still allows gag orders that would prohibit companies from being transparent with their users.
And the bill only imposed piecemeal limits on the government's ability to force surveillance capabilities on technology companies."

Bill C-22 Amendments Fall Short on Encryption and Cybersecurity Risks: - Chamber of Progress

Half Measures Fail to Fix Sweeping Surveillance Powers

Chamber of Progress
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From 2026-6-18

"Privacy experts and civil liberties groups denounce the Liberal government’s shut down of much-needed debate on dangerous state surveillance bill C-22"
https://iclmg.ca/c-22-motion-joint-pr/

Privacy experts and civil liberties groups denounce the Liberal government’s shut down of much-needed debate on dangerous state surveillance bill C-22 - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group

The federal government has rammed the controversial Lawful Access Act through Parliament despite massive opposition. June 18, 2026, OTTAWA – Twenty-one civil liberties organizations, privacy groups and individual experts are deeply alarmed that, late last night, the federal government cut off debate at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on the very …

International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
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From 2026-6-18

"Google says changes to Canada's police search powers bill haven't eased concerns"
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/google-says-changes-to-canadas-police-search-powers-bill-havent-eased-concerns

The article seems to do a poor job explaining a few things.

Bill C22 is not obvious on decryption:

From
https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-22/C-22_3/C-22_3.PDF

Page 38
Quote:
"Decryption
(4) No obligations under this Act are to be construed as compelling an electronic service provider to decrypt, or to ensure that an authorized person is able to decrypt, any information that is encrypted by a person to whom the electronic service provider provides services, unless the encryption was provided by the electronic service provider and the provider possesses the information necessary to decrypt the information."

My intpretation: if the service provider has the means to decrypt the data then the provider can be forced to decrypt the data.

Google says changes to Canada’s police search powers bill haven't eased concerns

Apple, Meta and Google had slammed Bill C-22 during consultations last month, citing privacy and security issues.

nationalpost
controlcJun 19

Surprisingly my MP's office returned my call from a few days ago about #StopBillC22 It was not my MP, but one of their staff. They were nice enough and spoke to me for some length. I got the impression that they were not well versed on c22 or C34. I talked to them about risks, the damage, stated I was upset that my MP had voted for c22, and that the Liberals has hurried C22. If they go back and do some research I guess that's something.

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From
https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-22/C-22_3/C-22_3.PDF

Page 40
Quote:
"Restriction - essential categories
(4.1) The Governor in Council may make a regulation requiring the retention of a category of metadata under paragraph (2)(d) only if the Governor in Council is satisfied that the category and all its elements are essential for facilitating effective and timely investigations under the Criminal Code or for facilitating the effective and timely exercise of powers or performance of duties and functions under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act."

Paragraph (2)(d) mentions a meta data period not to exceed six months.

Does (4.1) imply that this period could be extended?

IDK

A privacy lawyer would be much better qualified to answer that question than me.

Just another example of what is not specified in Bill C22 that is a problem.

A lawyer really needs to explain Bill C22 (in the third reading form) so that people can understand the implications.

IMO Bill C22 is a freaking sh*t-show.

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From
https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-22/C-22_3/C-22_3.PDF

Page 38
Quote:
"Decryption
(4) No obligations under this Act are to be construed as compelling an electronic service provider to decrypt, or to ensure that an authorized person is able to decrypt, any information that is encrypted by a person to whom the electronic service provider provides services, unless the encryption was provided by the electronic service provider and the provider possesses the information necessary to decrypt the information."

Please keep in mind that I am not a lawyer.

IMO that section implies that they can enforce a VPN provider
to decrypt a stream [of bytes].

A VPN service encrypts the traffic (or stream) between a user's computing device and the VPN service (where some type of proxy server is found).
The VPN provider requires public/private keys to encrypt/decrypt the stream to at least direct a user request to the desired web page.
If the spooks had access to those keys then the stream could in theory be compromised so that some type of log could be maintained.

If the spooks had access to the keys then in theory a bad actor, breaking into the spy gear, might be able to obtain access.
IMO there is not way to prevent a "systematic vunerability" from happening.

This vunerability would depend on how the VPN service was set up and could be different for each VPM provider.

This is an example of something that is not specified in Bill C22 but has massive implications to all Canadians.

Many VPN providers have stated that they will not comply.
Does this mean that the spooks will start blocking any VPN that does not comply?

BTW the term "construed" can not in any way shape or form be compared to the legal term "shall not".

Ask a lawyer if "construed" is a weasel word.

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Here is the third and final reading (2026-6-18) of Bill C22 before it is sent to the Senate.
https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-22/C-22_3/C-22_3.PDF

I'm not a lawyer but there are still some very concerning things in the bill.
Doubtful that much has changed other than a few cosmetic things.

This time around it is the things that are not specified in the bill that concern me the most.

Someone needs to present a detailed clause-by-clause analysis of the bill.
Perhaps @OpenMediaOrg or @mgeist will prepare some documents over the next few weeks?

The House has risen for the summer and should return in about 13 weeks time.

I do not expect the Senate to start review of the bill before September but that could change on short notice.

My big concern is that the Senate will not understand all of the implications of what is in and not in the bill and under time pressure will pass C22.

I know it is a big ask but over the next few weeks people need to prepare documents that Senators can understand so that bill at least gets a more detailed review than the ram-through process used by the gov.

A massive email campaign to the Senators will be required if C22 is to be stopped before it becomes law.
Be advised that a charter challenge could take some time. Bill C22 could inflict a considerable amount of damage before that point.

FWIW I was impressed by the actions of the opposition to ammend the bill.
E May even had an opportunity to speak to the committee last night.

IMO the LINOs should be ashamed of themselves for not protecting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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From 2026-6-18

"CCLA joins in statement denouncing government move to end debate on contentious surveillance bill, C-22"
https://ccla.org/privacy/ccla-joins-in-statement-denouncing-government-move-to-end-debate-on-contentious-surveillance-bill-c-22/

CCLA joins in statement denouncing government move to end debate on contentious surveillance bill, C-22 - CCLA

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) joined in a statement denouncing the government’s move to end debate on Bill C-22, a controversial legislative proposal that will significantly expand surveillance in...

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