{"id":280672,"date":"2026-06-24T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/new-rights-new-powers-long-delays-bill-c-36s-seven-step-process-for-privacy-reform-to-take-effect\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:00:21","slug":"new-rights-new-powers-long-delays-bill-c-36s-seven-step-process-for-privacy-reform-to-take-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/new-rights-new-powers-long-delays-bill-c-36s-seven-step-process-for-privacy-reform-to-take-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rights, New Powers, Long Delays: Bill C-36’s Seven-Step Process for Privacy Reform to Take Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Rights, New Powers, Long Delays: Bill C-36’s Seven-Step Process for Privacy Reform to Take Effect<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/06\/new-rights-new-powers-long-delays-bill-c-36s-seven-step-process-for-privacy-reform-to-take-effect\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-24 09:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The government\u2019s recently tabled privacy reform bill would modernize many aspects of Canadian privacy law, including establishing privacy as a fundamental right in the purpose clause of the new law, creating a data mobility right for individuals that would enable them to move their data from one company to another, and giving businesses the potential to use approved codes of practice. These and many other changes will be subject to intense debate at committee, but the biggest challenge facing the bill is the long sequence of steps required for it to take effect. The government may claim that privacy is an urgent priority, and its recent national AI strategy, overseen by AI Minister Evan Solomon, declares trust to be its \u201cnorth star\u201d, yet a careful review of Bill C-36 confirms that the law will take years to take effect. This post and the accompanying infographic unpack the many steps built into the bill that, cumulatively, are likely to result in no substantive privacy reforms for Canadians until 2030 or later.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The first step has nothing to do with privacy at all. Bill C-36 does not bring its new regime into force on its own. Part 3 of the bill is the gate the rest must pass through, and the bill\u2019s coming-into-force provision ties that gate to a separate statute: it provides that Part 3 comes into force only if Bill C-34, the online harms legislation, receives royal assent, and even then not before the new Commission is established under section 4 of the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act. Every other part of the bill, and the new Act\u2019s own provisions under its section 147, can take effect only once Part 3 is in force. Until Bill C-34 becomes law, C-36\u2019s privacy reform has no trigger, which means Canada\u2019s new privacy law cannot get out of the starting gate until the other bill does.<\/p>\n

The second step creates the Digital Safety Commission, but only as a non-functioning regulator. Even after Bill C-34 passes, the Commission comes into…<\/p>\n

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