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"Slick Videos Won't Save Lawful Access: Why The Government's Bill C-22 Defence Avoids the Charter, Privacy and Security Concerns Raised By Critics"
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/slick-videos-wont-save-lawful-access-why-the-governments-bill-c-22-defence-avoids-the-charter-privacy-and-security-concerns-raised-by-critics/
Quote: "Meanwhile, the government's position on encryption and systemic vulnerability is facing criticism from a wide range of groups.
Despite insisting that the bill brings Canada into line with its Five Eyes partners, Apple, Meta, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cybersecurity Advisors Network, and even the chairs of the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees have all warned that Bill C-22's technical capability requirements would create systemic vulnerabilities that adversaries could exploit."
Slick Videos Won't Save Lawful Access: Why The Government's Bill C-22 Defence Avoids the Charter, Privacy and Security Concerns Raised By Critics - Michael Geist
With opposition to Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, mounting, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has turned to social media with a video defending the bill as one that “respects Canadian privacy and Charter rights.” The video signals that the government has noticed the growing public concern. But the case against the bill, which I argued in committee testimony last week and in a series of earlier posts, raises at least four issues on which the government has not engaged: mandated metadata retention (which is ignored in its Charter Statement), a lower threshold for access to subscriber information that hurts privacy, security risks now alarming Canada’s closest allies, and an oversight architecture the oversight body itself says is incomplete.
Debborah Donnelly