10/12/2026
Stop the Passage of Bill C-22 in its Tracks!
If you think it doesn't affect you, you're wrong.
The bill requires cellphone companies to keep a record of the metadata pinged from your cellphone. They will keep a record of EVERYWHERE you go.
They will be able to watch your every move. And record it for as long as they want.
Bill C-22 might soon be the law if we don’t stop it now. It is well-intentioned, but its consequences are far-reaching. And in its current form it is unacceptable.
It is the greatest threat to your freedom of speech, your privacy, and democracy in Canadian history.
The Bill allows the government, and its associated services, like the RCMP, or anyone else with access (sometimes with permission from a judge, and sometimes not) to demand your private electronic communications, like email, private subscription data, web activity, download information, be kept by our service providers (Bell, Telus, etc.), and be available at any time for what someone (not necessarily a judge) decides is reasonable cause.
The bill does not state what "reasonable cause" is. Nor does it require that EVERY "reasonable cause" should go before a judge.
Many of us use VPNs for private communications to family overseas, particularly in strife-torn countries like Ukraine, Iran, China, and Russia, where communication is either dangerous, or politically problematic. We do not choose where our families live.
We also use VPNs for our banking, investing, and other important transactions to maintain privacy, and defend against hackers who steal our credentials.
Big companies like Meta (Facebook, Instagram), NordVPN (significant), Signal, Windscribe, and Apple have stated they cannot remain in Canada, because they will not be able to guarantee privacy rights for their users.
And new legislation will require that VPN encryption be illegal because all traffic would have to be monitored by the government watch body.
That watch body is already being set up!
So we will lose access to our privacy, and our constitutional right to freedom.
Yes, this legislation is intended to catch child traffickers and pornographers. Everybody agrees this is a scourge that must be eliminated.
But in light of Bill C-4 (also well-intentioned, but rushed through Parliament so fast that public consultation did not occur), which resulted in a Bill which practically defines "hate speech" as opening your mouth and voicing an opinion. Not a violent, obviously offensive opinion, because most people understand hate speech when they see it. But who decides what hate speech is? Because voicing "hate speech" leaves a person vulnerable to 10 years in prison! And, to be honest, there is quite a lot of hate speech in the Bible and the Quran, so does quoting those land you in jail? It is flabbergasting that this ridiculous piece of legislation passed many readings before it was enacted - without any of the legislators posing a single question about how hate speech would be defined, and who would police its definition. But it is possible Bill C-22 will be rushed too.
Canada is a shining beacon of hope for the rest of the world right now. We are rightly proud. But our Parliament is about to rubber stamp a set of laws that no other western, civilized country imposes upon its people, and which will rapidly transform our government into the new Big Brother of the modern age.
Bill C-22 cannot simply be rammed through Parliament when it is clear that no public opinion has been sought. Public opinion was never considered for Bill C-4.
Canadians, you have known nothing BUT freedom. But having never experienced oppression, you have no appreciation of the freedom you take for granted.
Parliament is slamming bills through, often without objection, that affect you. Bill C-22 is one of a few (like Bill C-4, which has already been enacted). They are well-intentioned bills. But they are also all-encompassing bills, and affect the rights and privileges of every Canadian, not just children, not just child pornographers and traffickers.
We have nothing to hide, we have done nothing wrong, I hear you say. And, to an extent, that is true. However, the law (if it passes) gives the government the right to keep an eye on you. To spy on every financial decision you make. It will know where your children school from your phone's metadata. They will know where you shop for groceries, where you gas up your car, where you wash your car, where you pick up takeout, where you go to gym, if you swim and where, and so on. Is that what you want? What if you and hubby decide to take a romantic midnight walk at a deserted beach, only to have the evening interrupted by bright lights, howling sirens and soldiers with menacing guns running towards you, yelling Get down, Get down? Turns out they thought something suspicious was happening. You had your phone, see.
How far will all of this go? And how far will our people allow it to go? Few understand what is at stake.
Stop Bill C-22. Value your privacy. Value democracy. Sign the petition! And please tell your friends and family.
Stop the Passage of Bill C-22 in its Tracks!
