After their first try with Bill C-2, the federal government pushes forward again with Bill C-22. We note these major changes:
- Police orders given to a service provider would now be based only on "suspicion" instead of "belief", lowering significantly the required proof.
- Federal ministers would be able to impose secret orders to service providers forcing them to install "backdoors" in their system so that police can have real-time access to all its data.
- If a service provider is not compiling certain data, the police can order them to do so.
This type of law is already in place in the United States for a while, and opened the door to major problems. For instance, "backdoors" were obtained by foreign agents who used them for industrial espionnage: https://archive.is/20250402125551/https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b
If this law gets in the books, it will make all our systems more vulnerable, at a time where internet attacks are widespread through the use of AI agents. We have a duty to secure our systems, to regain control of our data, and not to make them more fallible... moreso by secret orders not supervised by the national assembly.
At a time where more and more governments are turning to fascism, we question the authoritarian skew of these bills and their impact on our rights and freedoms. The current drift we see in multiple countries (United States, Russia, Hungary, etc.) show the importance of fighting these kind of laws, which requires protecting our privacy.
Koumbit therefore join the call of the Ligue des droits et libertés and invite you to do the same: https://liguedesdroits.ca/appel-conjoint-au-retrait-du-projet-de-loi-c-22/
This other article from La Presse gives more details (in French): Ottawa pourrait faciliter l’espionnage de votre téléphone, article de La Presse en date du 14 mai 2026 - https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/techno/2026-05-14/projet-de-loi-c-22/ottawa-pourrait-faciliter-l-espionnage-de-votre-telephone.php
