Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an...

Another step towards mass surveillance in Canada!

For those not following along, this bill is bad enough that Signal is planning to leave Canada if it is enacted.

  • ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca
    2·
    21 hours ago

    I signed petitions and donated to this more times than I care to count. I have not heard of local protests for this in my area, but I don’t know what else to do. Writing to my MP was part of the petitions, too.

    • cadekat@pawb.socialOP
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Start getting people on fully decentralized p2p chats like briar or deltachat I guess!

  • DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca
    19·
    3 days ago

    I’ve signed more petitions in the past 3 years and gone to more protests than I have in my entire life. (Including opposing these bills).

    The feds have completely tuned out protests since the 90s in my observation.

    Between Harpers brutalizing G7 protestors and Trudeau sicking militarized police on BC water protectors, the uniparty feds have learned they can just ignore moral protests.

    Shitty Conservative opposition is signing off on this bill and NDP voters largely abandoned the NDP to vote in this fucking nightmare gov.

    I legit don’t know what to do.

    • Sina@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I legit don’t know what to do.

      There is nothing much you can do, maybe you could tell your representative that they would lose your vote if they voted for this…

      Well, unless you are willing to dedicate your life to create a new populist (doesn’t matter if it’s left-right or center) political force to actually get somewhere, like some Serbians & Hungarians have done in recent years.

      The kind of protest that would have actual impact will not happen in Canada anytime soon, almost no matter what happens.

  • puppinstuff@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    I’ve emailed my tone-deaf, copy-paste responding MP and added my name to every blast to the senate.

    There is nothing more to be done. I now have to wait for my country to make an own-goal and hope they have the self-awareness to reverse course when the completely predictable services pullout happens.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      The senate has the ability to (and has done in the past) send bills back to parliament to be revised, amended, re-written entirely or even killed.