{"id":255119,"date":"2026-05-25T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/carpay-bill-c-22-is-a-threat-to-hard-won-liberties\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:20:16","slug":"carpay-bill-c-22-is-a-threat-to-hard-won-liberties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/carpay-bill-c-22-is-a-threat-to-hard-won-liberties\/","title":{"rendered":"CARPAY: Bill C-22 is a threat to hard-won liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARPAY: Bill C-22 is a threat to hard-won liberties<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.junonews.com\/p\/carpay-bill-c-22-is-a-threat-to-hard<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-25 08:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.junonews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook (Gary Anandasangaree)<\/p>\n

By: John Carpay<\/p>\n

John Carpay, B.A., LL.B., is President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.<\/p>\n

In free societies, police must go to court to obtain a warrant before conducting ongoing surveillance of a person\u2019s communications. This system has protected both public safety and individual liberty for centuries. Yet that hard-won balance now stands under threat from proposed legislation that would dramatically expand government power.<\/p>\n

MPs will soon vote on Bill C-22, the <\/span>Lawful Access Act. The federal government claims that Bill C-22 is needed in order to give police and CSIS broader surveillance powers to go after criminal activity, and that it\u2019s an improvement over its earlier version <\/span>Bill C-2, which was shelved last fall following massive public outcry. Under the pretext of \u201cpublic safety,\u201d this legislation would expand state power over ordinary Canadians while doing nothing to address the actual legal architecture that allows transnational criminal networks to operate in Canada with near impunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Given its broad definition of \u201celectronic service providers,\u201d Bill C-22 would require \u201ccore providers\u201d like Rogers, Bell, Google and WhatsApp to retain metadata for up to one year, and build systems for rapid data handover when law enforcement presents a valid authorization. These requirements would also come with gag orders, preventing the companies from informing Canadians when or why their data was accessed. The bill also lowers the legal standard for police to obtain users\u2019 subscriber information from \u201creasonable grounds to believe\u201d to the much weaker \u201creasonable grounds to suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why do Canadians cherish privacy in the first place? If a person has nothing to hide, why should they care if the authorities can read their emails, texts, or AI conversations? Why does Section 8 of the <\/span>Charter expressly protect Canadians against unreasonable search and seizure?<\/span><\/p>\n

Even completely innocent people who have…<\/p>\n

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