Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance
Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance
The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.
This isn’t speculation. Earlier this month, a Canadian government official told Politico that this surveillance regime would give Canadian police “the same kind of toolkit” that their U.S. counterparts have under the PATRIOT Act and FISA. The bill allows for “technical capability orders.” Those orders mean the government can force Canadian tech companies, VPNs, cloud providers, and app developers—regardless of where in the world they are based—to build surveillance tools into their products.
Under U.S. law, non-U.S. persons have little protection from foreign surveillance. If U.S. cops want information on abortion access, gender-affirming care, or political protests happening in Canada—they’re going to get it. The data-sharing won’t necessarily be limited to the U.S., either. There’s nothing to stop authoritarian states from demanding this new trove of Canadians’ private data that will be secretly doled out by its law enforcement agencies.
This bill is being introduced by a minister that the pm hand picked himself. Mark Carney is selling out Canadians!
This bill is being introduced by a minister that the pm hand picked himself
all ministers are
Mark Carney is selling out Canadians!
correct, he is doing exactly the opposite he promised as a candidate
Not only is this a terrible bill, but the timing of it is especially telling. We're in a fight for our sovereignty and he wants to hand our data over to the people threatening us.
I think many of us have forgotten that Harper signed an agreement with the US in 2012 (that took effect on January 17, 2025) where "... the automated exchange of biographical and biometric information on permanent residents of both Canada and the United States" is now shared.
Bill C-2 is simply part 2 of Harper's continued bullshit legacy that continues to haunt us years later.
Buy some PLTU, because Palantir will be embedded into every government world wide by direction of credit rating agencies.
That's my thoughts on the matter anyways, DOGE was a data grab for government data, and the Musk/Trump fallout was fake to cover it up. People buying it at a 5x PEG aren't irrationally dumb.
Personally my reaction to most of C-2 is mild disappointment, but Part 15 is extremely concerning to me.