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Canada vows to amend Bill C-22's encryption and metadata rules amid massive tech backlash
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The Liberals are determined to turn Canada into a surveillance state and share data with other "eyes" countries including the USA. This government is not looking to protect Canadians. And they haven't taken the objections on board, as evidenced by their statements that they need to "define" encryption, and that "the new amendments will aim to align the bill's encryption provisions with US counterparts." How can you look at all the history of the USA spying on its own citizens and think "Yep, Canada should copy that"? Not a government that's serving Canadians.
Yeah, people really believed in that elbows up bullshit from Mark Carney.
He's selling Canada to U.S. interests wholesale.
People need to take a stand. There should be a nation-wide strike against this government to tell them to correct their path or fuck off.
Confused American here.
Are your liberals the same as our conservatives?
Our Liberals are what we call "neo-liberal". Morally somewhat progressive, but fiscally conservative. They prioritize the economy (read: businesses) over anything else.
They tend to cut funding to social programs through austerity measures, then claim they don't work, only to privatize everything. Then realize privatizing everything made it suck even more because they're raking in all the cash, but not investing in any maintenance, and are begging the government for money for that maintenance. Only to pocket that money as well.
They'll sell our natural resources to the highest bidder, usually foreign interests, who will then sell it back to us with an exaggerated increase.
.......that was a very long yes.
Not quite, they're more like pro-business Democrats. Promise nice things, deliver for big business and weaken labour instead, give you more pride flag zebra crossings as consolation.
That's the ones. The actual progressive/left party are the NDP party up here. Canadian conservatives used to be much closer to the centre, but they fell quick under the onslaught of American propaganda recently. Liberals are the ones who don't care what you do in the bedroom as long as their donors are making money. NDP are the tiny voice of the people who think the Epstein class needs to go, and wearing rainbow socks doesn't make them "One of the good ones."
No, your conservatives are straight Nazis, our liberals are fiscal conservatives. To be fair, both deserve the gallows.
One point of correction:
That isn't how the 5 eyes actually works. It's illegal for most countries to invade the privacy of their own citizens without a warrant since they have the equivalent to the bill of rights or a constitution or something similar.
But... it's not illegal for Canada to spy on the citizens of the other 5 eyes technically speaking (especially if nobody ever finds out...) you just blame discovering stuff on other legitimate surveillance methods, or you "get lucky" one day and catch a person you're interested in by pure happenstance. Wow, would you look at that? They were criminaling while I was watching them.
You ~~scratch my back~~ spy on my citizens I ~~scratch~~ spy on yours?