After bill C-22 leaves the SECU Committee, it will be sent to the House of Commons for the third reading and a final vote before being sent to the Senate.
If you are a Canadian citizen, you can also use the following tools to message your MP:
I didn’t have time to watch much of that committee meeting video, but from what I did see it seems highly unlikely that they’re going to do anything to meaningfully change the situation. Time to retire all the rhetoric about Chinese companies being untrustworthy because they’re subject to secret orders to spy on their customers on behalf of their government, because the same is about to be true in Canada.
But it wasn’t the final meeting, I guess there’s still time for some kind of miracle.
There will be a SECU Committee meeting on C-22 later today, where the committee will be performing a clause by clause review of Bill C-22, and voting on amendments. It may be the final meeting. You can watch it live by clicking the “Watch on ParlVu” button on the meeting notice page: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SECU/meetin… Direct link to the upcoming live ParlVu video: https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrows…
After bill C-22 leaves the SECU Committee, it will be sent to the House of Commons for the third reading and a final vote before being sent to the Senate.
If you are a Canadian citizen, you can also use the following tools to message your MP:
The Internet Society’s tool: https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/kee…
OpenMedia’s messaging tool: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
ICLM’s messaging tool: https://iclmg.ca/stop-c-22/
You can also email Gary Anandasangaree (gary.anand@parl.gc.ca), Marc Carney (mark.carney@parl.gc.ca), and Sean Fraser (sean.fraser@parl.gc.ca), and tell them that any weakening of encryption or suspicionless retention of metadata is unacceptable.
I didn’t have time to watch much of that committee meeting video, but from what I did see it seems highly unlikely that they’re going to do anything to meaningfully change the situation. Time to retire all the rhetoric about Chinese companies being untrustworthy because they’re subject to secret orders to spy on their customers on behalf of their government, because the same is about to be true in Canada.
But it wasn’t the final meeting, I guess there’s still time for some kind of miracle.