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RE: https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116574553793925157

#BillC22 #KillBillC22 #StopBillC22 #CdnPoli
Who's interested? Anyone wish to try?
@OpenMediaOrg?

#BillC22 #KillBillC22 #StopBillC22 #CdnPoli

"Bill C-22's Groundhog Day: Why the Government's Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook"
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/bill-c-22s-groundhog-day-why-the-governments-dismissal-of-signal-apple-and-the-u-s-congress-concerns-runs-back-the-disastrous-online-news-act-playbook/

Quote: "Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks."

Quote: "The pattern will be familiar for anyone who lived through the Online News Act. Supporters of then-Bill C-18 dismissed warnings from Meta and Google that the bill's mandated payments for news links were unworkable and that they would comply by blocking the links in Canada ... But by the end of summer 2023, Meta had stripped news links from Facebook and Instagram, an approach that continues to this day."

#KillBillC22 #StopBillC22 #BillC22 #CdnPoli

Just checked #NDP AL feed on Mastodon - he's been leader for over a month and there hasn't been one toot about Bill C22.

Maybe Charter Rights are not a big issue with the NDP?
One might suspect that Charter rights would be a very important issue for the NDP.

Second reading happened 2026-4-20, at least one NDPer must have voted then.
MPs can vote by phone app anywhere in Canada.

Did anyone tell him?

I cannot find any NDP MPs on Mastodon.

Did any NDP MPs speak to the media about Bill C22?

#StopBillC22 #KillBillC22

From 2026-4-29
#CitizenLab "Kill Bill C-22 Says Civil Society to Parliament"
https://citizenlab.ca/kill-bill-c-22-says-civil-society-to-parliament/

Here's a link to the letter
#OpenMedia "Civil Society to Parliament: Kill Bill C-22"
https://openmedia.org/press/item/civil-society-to-parliament-kill-bill-c-22

Quote: "Today's letter sounds the alarm on sweeping new powers in Bill C-22 that would let the government force any digital service - telecoms, messaging apps, cloud services, AI tools, even "smart" devices - to record and retain up to a full year of detailed metadata on every person in Canada and abroad, including physical location data and who they interact with online."

Anyone who is concerned can add their name to this campaign (please do)
https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
to have a letter sent to their MP.

I recommend following @OpenMediaOrg

In 2012 the push-back from many Canadians was enough to convince PMSH to kill bill C30 (similar in nature to Bill C22)

A surveilled society is not free.
Resistance is not futile!

#CdnPoli