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Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

5d 21h ago by lemmy.ca/u/lautan in canada@lemmy.ca from www.ourcommons.ca

Of course... After signing and all my info has been gathered, i have to verify my signing and that's when i get

I would be so triggered if this happened to me

I still did it anyway with no expectations...lucky for me it worked I think.

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:

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.

I agree the situation looks dire but it’s important people understand what’s going on.

Yeah I have no idea how to keep track of what's going on with it myself, let alone how to get word out to everyone else who's going to be affected by this national disaster of a legislative project. It would be nice if we had a press that was interested in or capable of covering this sort of thing.

There's another committee meeting on right now and I only know about it because I happened to remember to check.

I tuned in to watch for a few minutes and saw a Conservative MP asking sensible questions that I guess someone had written for her but not really following up on or challenging the responses to them, which were composed of a lot of vague hand-waving denials by the Liberals that any of the problems are a problem, without actually addressing any of the points made. Democracy in action!

It's a real contrast to committee meetings I remember watching in decades past when I used to tune in to CPAC more frequently, where real expertise was often on display. Support for this bill would fall apart under the slightest scrutiny if the reality-based community were more involved the debate. But what debate there is, it's just for show. It's a majority government, they do what they like — and if someone tells them it's a bad idea they must be the enemy.