Wtf is wrong with these government people? We're currently undergoing the single greatest period in Internet hacking and they're debating this? Every day all I hear about now is this was hacked and that was compromised online, and these people want to weaken security for their citizens, for what? A couple big photo ops while risking the info of 40 million people. Not a good trade-off. Plus, making the companies store this data, sensitive info, just is asking for hackers to steal and exploit it. The companies won't improve their security for the government. It's not a profitable undertaking.

Cool, can't wait for this to pass and I have to rent a server in Panama just to read my email.

I love how all western countries are like, see how bad China is with surveillance?, then do exactly the same thing.

Serious question, how can regular people oppose this? The Liberals have basically a majority government, and seem dead set on pushing this through. The only thing I can think of is to encourage Canadian workers to organize and join their local working class organization, be it a union or their local NDP riding.

Hell, at this point The Communist Party sounds pretty good compared to Neoliberal alternatives.

I impatiently await all of the private information of the members of parliaments and their extended families being inadvertently released with quarterly updates.

I think this is Canada's response to the US CLOUD Act and FISA 702. But, implied in this response is that Canada's power system is uninterested in resolving the privacy issues that flow from those invasive pieces of US legislation as it relates to Canadians. Instead, it seems that the system has become interested or accustomed to access to this Canadian data, and wants it to continue with domestic legislation.

Ultimately, as we've seen with Salt Typhoon and other iterations of it, these types of indiscriminate legislation chips away at our collective rights, and makes the world less safe. With the recent news of the PHP vulnerabilities, and the eMudhra Certificate Security fiasco, it's quite clear that building back doors to systems that have difficulty maintaining their front doors creates more instability and uncertainty.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2182863/health-data-cloud-servers-canada-us

https://www.recordinglaw.com/news/fisa-section-702-surveillance-lapse/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4239619/emudhra-quits-global-tls-certificate-market-after-compromise-of-ca-signing-keys.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/php-cybersecurity-vulnerability-explainer-9.7392394

I've signed more petitions in the past 3 years and gone to more protests than I have in my entire life. (Including opposing these bills).

The feds have completely tuned out protests since the 90s in my observation.

Between Harpers brutalizing G7 protestors and Trudeau sicking militarized police on BC water protectors, the uniparty feds have learned they can just ignore moral protests.

Shitty Conservative opposition is signing off on this bill and NDP voters largely abandoned the NDP to vote in this fucking nightmare gov.

I legit don't know what to do.

I’ve emailed my tone-deaf, copy-paste responding MP and added my name to every blast to the senate.

There is nothing more to be done. I now have to wait for my country to make an own-goal and hope they have the self-awareness to reverse course when the completely predictable services pullout happens.

Messaged my MP.

He seems to be on the right side of every issue, so I hope he's right here as well.

Oppose how? It's in the senate already. Pretty much a done deal.

I signed petitions and donated to this more times than I care to count. I have not heard of local protests for this in my area, but I don't know what else to do. Writing to my MP was part of the petitions, too.