What Louis didn't mention is that this is the current Liberal Government's second try at this, after stuffing it in Part 15 of Bill C-2 which ultimately didn't come to pass. My thoughts then.

C-2 was broken out now to several individual bills, some which have passed, some not. I still see why the government wants this bill to display their tough-on-crime posture, but I wrote to my MP again last weekend on two points on C-22 that still need fixing:

Change all instances of 'suspect' to 'believe' in the phrase "reasonable grounds to suspect". These sweeping powers I think need more than just police suspicion which particularly in the online space they can fabricate the "pre-crime" from thin air.
Getting rid of the metadata clause. I pointed out that mandating companies to collect and retain information for authorities from innocent users before any crime happens, is not dissimilar to carding on the street getting info to supposedly stop crime before it happens. And that I don't trust companies to securely store this information given numerous instances of breaches, hacks and accidental leaks.

I was inspired by @mgeist@mas.to 's extensive blogging on the subject on his website: michaelgeist.ca and his appearances in Parliament.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I wrote my MP as well, but focused on the privacy industry exiting Canada if logging was required for them to operate legally (and how that would affect me, personally), and how forcing services to add a back door for the government to access data would compromise everyone's security. I cited Geist and various other articles.