westcoast @Simsg01

🚨 This should alarm every single Canadian. In committee, Apple and Google just warned MPs exactly what Bill C-22 does. They said the bill doesn’t just ask them to unlock encryption when needed. It lets the government issue **secret ministerial orders** forcing them to build a “hole in the wall” — a backdoor — that didn’t exist before. Apple: “We’re concerned about a hole being put in the wall.” Liberals: “There’s no hole in the wall.” Apple: “But the bill lets you secretly order one.” Google: “We’ve never built anything like this, anywhere in the world.” And the response? Basically “pinky promise we won’t abuse it.” This isn’t some conspiracy theory. This is tech companies that fight governments for a living telling Parliament that C-22 would force them to do something unprecedented globally — create secret backdoors and comply with sweeping, unchecked ministerial orders on metadata, encryption, and more. After C-11 gave them control over what you can see and say online, C-22 is coming for what you can keep private. Law-abiding Canadians. Your texts. Your calls. Your data. Your location. Your searches. All of it potentially accessible through secret orders with minimal real oversight. Privacy isn’t optional. Encryption protects everyone — including the people who have nothing to hide. If this passes in its current form, Canada becomes a place where the government can quietly demand tech companies build tools to spy on its own citizens… and the companies are saying they’ve never been forced to do this anywhere else on Earth. That’s not “lawful access.” That’s the foundation of a surveillance state. Wake up. This one actually matters. #BillC22 #C22 #LawfulAccessAct #CanadaPrivacy #SurveillanceState #Encryption #cdnpoli

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westcoast @Simsg01

4 days ago

@mark_slapinski Haha

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westcoast @Simsg01

4 days ago

@kinsellawarren lol

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L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison

5 days ago

After more than a decade of Liberal rule, the lesson from Nineteen Eighty-Four is not that Canada has become Oceania. It is that free countries decay when citizens stop noticing the habits of control. We have watched language get manipulated until failure becomes “investment,” censorship becomes “safety,” declining living standards become “resilience,” and disagreement becomes “misinformation” or “hate.” We have watched government expand, deficits become permanent, accountability weaken, and public institutions grow more political while delivering worse results. Every failure is blamed on somebody else. Every criticism is treated as proof that the critic is the problem. The most dangerous part is not one policy or one leader. It is the steady normalization of manipulation, conformity, surveillance, moral intimidation, and concentrated power. Orwell’s warning was simple: freedom disappears gradually when people surrender truth, language, privacy, and independent thought in exchange for comfort and official reassurance. Canada is still a democracy. That is exactly why citizens must challenge power before these habits become permanent. Loving your country does not mean trusting its government. It means watching it closely.