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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did they table the amended C-2?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They have split the bill off into separate ones hoping we wont notice.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh I see. I read a bit more carefully and it seems that Greenpeace'es reporting might be outdated on the lawful access bits of C-2. Reading from Michael Geist it seems that they've been removed from the bill:

    The government today reversed course on its ill-advised anti-privacy measures in Bill C-2, introducing a new border bill with the lawful access provisions (Parts 14 and 15) removed. The move is welcome given the widespread opposition to provisions that would have created the power to demand warrantless access to information from any provider of a service in Canada and increased the surveillance on Canadian networks.

    But we have to be vigilant as Canadian governments have been trying to pass lawful access since Harper.

    That's just lawful access though, nothing to do with the rest of the nastiness around immigration which is still there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There is much confusion about such things. "Increased surveillance" is how many people understood the worst part of C-2, but it was much worse than just that. The stuff that remains (presumably; I haven't read the new bills) could also be described as increased surveillance but isn't the same thing as the completely over-the-top ill-considered lunge in the direction of "lawful access" that was in the original.

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