New Surveillance Laws: Canada
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US Congress warns Canada “Don’t do this!”
In May 2026, two committees of the US Congress sent Canada a letter. The message was simple. Don't do this. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/u-s-congressional-leaders-warn-canadian-lawful-access-plans-harm-u-s-national-security-and-economic-interests/
What Americans are worried about are three Blls currently moving through Canadian parliament.
Bills C34, C22, C8
Canada’s new surveillance laws could fundamentally change online privacy, encryption, age verification, and government access to your digital data.
Is Canada becoming a surveillance state?
Each bill was introduced for a reason that sounds completely reasonable on its own. Protect kids, catch criminals, defend against cyber attacks yet put all three on the same table and they raise the same question: Is Canada becoming a surveillance state?
If you’re interested in Canadian politics, privacy rights, cybersecurity, surveillance, encryption, AI, technology policy, digital freedom, or the future of Canada’s internet, this video will give you the context you need.
Canada’s Metadata Retention Plan Would Make It an Outlier
May 14, 2026
Last week, when I appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-22, a question kept coming up from members on both sides of the table: how do other countries handle this? Do our closest allies require electronic service providers to retain the metadata of nearly everyone in the country for a lengthy period, without grounds or individualized suspicion, as the government is proposing to do here?
With one exception, no, the Five Eyes partners have not gone where Bill C-22 proposes to go. Continues at https://www.robertdiab.ca/posts/metadata-compare/
State sanctioned mass surveillance is global
Without prejudice and without recourse
Doreen Agostino
Our Greater Destiny Blog
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I would argue that Canadians as well as Americans have been under a state of surveillance for going on 25 years come this September following 9/11. We were tracked through our phones during the convid lockdown and the Canadian government along with the service providers admitted to it. The latest slew of online legislation is merely the government legitimizing their ongoing surveillance under the guise of protecting children, minorities etc. Plus they gave themselves the authority to erase any of us digitally from society should we speak out of line or search unacceptable topics online.
The journalist Glen Greenwald who broke the Edward Snowden story, wrote a book in 2015 “ No Place to Hide” detailing the extent of the online surveillance dating back to the major rollout in 2007. It is truly chilling. Literally every phone call, text, email and keystroke of the Five Eye nations. They have it all. No warrants, court orders, bridging governmental changes, both right and left are complicit. There’s been no online privacy for over 20 years. But soon all of that data will be drug out of the archives to target everyone deemed a threat to the agenda.