Harper-Con Carney fully tosses his liberal disguise.

@phillipmeintzer.bsky.social‬:

NINE BILLION for more war and destruction. That’s NINE BILLION of our taxpayer dollars that could fund housing, education, healthcare, renewable energy projects, or any other public service. More money for Raytheon & Lockheed Martin, less for Canadians in need. Carney is a warmonger. #CDNPoli

Canada’s “Strong Borders Act” (Bill C-2) Contains Four Mass Surveillance Trojans by Mark E. Jeftovic, June 3, 2025, easydns.com

A ban on cash, the post office can open your letters, and warrantless data taps, oh my!

The recently re-elected Liberal government has tabled Bill C-2, “The Strong Borders Act”, ostensibly to tighten up border security after the Trump Tariff Tantrums that threw a monkey-wrench into Canada’s political landscape and economy.

But nestled within this legislation are four surveillance mechanisms that are either new or that already existed but whose scope is being expanded, including warrantless access to digital communications.

They are:

1) Ban on cash transactions over $10,000

It amends the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to bar “certain” entities from “from accepting cash payments, donations or deposits of $10,000 or more”.

This also includes multiple smaller cash transactions that add up to more than $10K – and while section 9.21 proscribes any entity described under certain paragraphs of the Money Laundering bill (the “certain” entities part, I guess), 77.5(1):

Offence — cash payments, donations or deposits of $10,000 or more

77.‍5 (1) Every person or entity that is engaged in a business, a profession or the solicitation of charitable financial donations from the public commits an offence if the person or entity accepts a cash payment, donation or deposit of $10,000 or more in a single transaction or in a prescribed series of related transactions that total $10,000 or more.

I don’t know what “a prescribed series of related transactions means”. Back in my drinking days I would have easily dropped more than $10K in cash at my local bar in a series of ongoing (daily) cash transactions. Would something like that apply?

Whatever it means, if you’re found guilty, you’ll have to pay three times the transaction amount as a fine:

Punishment

(4) Every person or entity that is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine; or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of not more than three times the amount of the payment, donation or deposit accepted.

2) The authorities and Canada Post can open your mail

The bill amends the Canada Post Corporation Act “to expand the Canada Post Corporation’s authority to open mail in certain circumstances to include the authority to open letters.”

It does this by modifying one sentence of in section 41(1) of the current act, and removing a few words

41 (1) The Corporation may open any mail, ~~other than a letter~~, if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that

Where letters were specifically excluded from being opened “on reasonable grounds” – they will now be fair game.When I began publicly speaking about Encana/Ovintiv illegally frac’ing my community’s drinking water aquifers and AER (the industry’s self regulator) enabling the crimes, all official letters arrived opened and personal letters mostly did not show up at all (only to be returned to sender for no reason, months after they had mailed them).

It also indemnifies the government against any liability arising from the seizure or retention of any mail.That’s fucking dirty Mr. Harper-Con Carney. So if my tax documents are seized by your goons with intent to harass me (as many officials have been doing for years to punish me for daring to tell the truth about frac harms and crimes by Encana), or out of negligence and the CRA fines me, I am legally to blame for your fuck ups and snooping? Disgusting con cowards, even more cowardly than Piss Panties Poilievre and Steve Harper. PS. What the hell are you doing inviting India’s vile terrorist authoritarian Modi to the G7? Are you out of your fucking mind with power already? FFS. Not acceptable.

3) Expands who has access to data obtained by covertly installed tracking devices

A lot of the alarms being raised on social media over this bill focus on the fact that it would enable authorities to install surveillance software and trackers on your phones, including covertly.No biggie, Bibi Netanyahu and Israel’s Pegasus and other spyware likely already tracks most of us. Before I began speaking out, my home was never broken into. Afterwards, my home has been repeatedly broken into, creepily with strange goings on. Fucking cowards again, terrified of data, the truth and a solitary female calling them out for their cowardice and crimes/crime enabling. I knew when I chose to speak out that my privacy was toast.

This is not new, it’s already in section 492 of the Criminal Code – which outlines the provisions on warrants for tracking devices:

(3) The warrant authorizes the peace officer or public officer, or a person acting under their direction, to install, activate, use, maintain, monitor and remove the tracking device, including covertly

What Bill C-2 has done is draw people’s attention to it. What it also does is expand the scope of who else can obtain said data from your devices, amending 492(3) with:

(3) The warrant authorizes the peace officer or public officer, or a person acting under their direction, to install, activate, use, maintain, monitor and remove the tracking device, including covertly. Insertion start The warrant also authorizes a person acting under the direction of the peace officer or public officer to obtain the tracking data that is authorized to be obtained under the warrant.

Probably because of Trojan #4:

#4) It compels ISPs to assist in warrantless snooping

The new bill itself introduces another piece of legislation in the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA), which will

“Ensure that electronic services providers (ESPs) have the capabilities in place to support law enforcement agencies and CSIS in criminal and intelligence investigations by requiring them to fulfil lawfully authorized requests to access or intercept information and communications.“

It does this by

“establish[ing] a framework for ensuring that electronic service providers can facilitate the exercise, by authorized persons, of authorities to access information conferred under the Criminal Code or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act.”CSIS have proven themselves to be criminals and liars. Best to never trust them.

A service provider is defined as

“a person that, individually or as part of a group, provides an electronic service, including for the purpose of enabling communicationsIncluding evil AI and Super Intelligence?, and that

(a) provides the service to persons in Canada; or

(b) carries on all or part of its business activities in Canada.‍ ”

Under the act, ESPs (ISPs) would be required to comply with ministerial orders (not warrants) to intercept communications – provided that doing so won’t introduce a vulnerability into their systems that can’t be rectified. ESPs are entitled to compensation for their costs of compliance, but those are determined by the ministry, not the provider.

All orders must have an expiry date, and there are some mechanisms in there for providers to contest the orders – but overall:

“an electronic service provider must provide all reasonable assistance, in any prescribed time and manner, to permit the assessment or testing of any device, equipment or other thing that may enable an authorized person to access information.”

With the following entities able to make requests on service providers:

(a) the Minister;

(b) an employee of the Canadian Security Intelligence ServiceNot trustworthy and proven dishonest, including in court!;

(c) a person appointed or employed under Part I of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act or a civilian employee referred to in section 10 of that Act;

(d) a civilian employee of another police force;

(e) a peace officer, as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code.

ISPs under blanket gag order

Also, ISPs cannot inform their customers that they have been ordered to tap their data or even admit that they are under a gag order.

An electronic service provider and any person acting on its behalf must not disclose any of the following information except as permitted under this Act or the Canada Evidence Act:

(a) information contained in an order made under subsection 6(1) or 7(1);

(b) information on which the Minister relied in making the order;

(c) the fact that the electronic service provider is subject to the order;

As University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist notes, much of this is a retread of “Lawful Access” , which were earlier attempts by the Liberal government to introduce sweeping new surveillance regimes on Canadians.

The first reading of Bill C-2 passed on June 3, 2025.

@CraigSauve:

Canada’s “Strong Borders Act” (Bill C-2) Contains Four Mass Surveillance Trojans.

This bill is Harper-style authoritarian.Yup. Harper-Con Carney.

This is the Carney government. Clearly camped on theextreme right wing.

@ClaytonBurnsPhD:

Let’s not forget the programmatic hideous behaviour of CSIS. If these types get everything they want, they will abuse it just like ICE.

CSIS had officer investigated after she reported a superior raped her, Investigation into victim concluded alleged attacks were ‘misuse’ of agency vehicles by the woman

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June 6, 2025: Carney says Modi needs to be at the table during G7 summit

June 2, 2025: Stephen Harper calls on Canada to mend ties with India

@JennyKwanBC:

NDP stands with Sikh community in condemning PM Carney’s invite to Modi for G7 Summit. Modi’s regime is linked to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Canada must prioritize justice and human rights, not diplomacy with those who threaten our sovereignty. 1/ @HMcPhersonMP

@ProclaimTruth:

Thank you @JennyKwanBC! #SurrenderCarney #SurrenderAnand

This is not only a matter of hurt for the Canadian Sikh community, but also an insult to all Canadians and their values that are at the core of Canadian existence.

Shame on

@CanadianPM
@MarkJCarney
@AnitaAnandMP

for disrespecting Canadian lives and for being spineless in surrendering to Indian bullying and inviting #TerroristModi who is responsible for terrorizing and murdering Canadian citizens on Canadian soil. #Canada

Refer also to:

2025 06 06: Andrew Phillips: Mark Carney is proving to be very popular — with conservatives’cause he’s one of them.

2025: @haaretzcom:

An Italian parliamentary committee has confirmed that the government used the Israeli-made spyware Graphite to hack the smartphones of several activists working with migrants

Italy Admits Hacking Activists With Israeli Spyware Paragon

An Italian parliamentary committee has confirmed that the government used the Israeli-made spyware Graphite, developed by the offensive cyber company Paragon, to hack the smartphones of several activists working with migrants. …

@VWoolf9:

Regularly turn your phone off. Daily. These Israeli hackers have no respect for people’s privacy.

How else can they force people to support occupation without blackmail and espionage.

Graphite. Israel is engaged all kinds of strange operations to oppress and violate folk.

2024: Canadian citizens: Never speak to CSIS without lawyer present, notably if you are pro truth, pro-Charter rights (freedom of expression), pro-justice, pro-Palestinian, pro-Peace, anti-Zionist and anti-genocide. PS Most unwise to trust Israel’s henchmen in Canada, notably: Irwin Cotler & Rosalie Abella (or believe what they say).

2020: Oil & gas friendly spy agency, CSIS, that for years, “relied on legal doctrine of Crown immunity as defence against criminal liability,” chastised in court yet again, for pissing on the rule of law. Better tell our lying Supreme Court of Canada judges; murdering illegally spying police; RCMP illegally operating as mobsters for Encana & AER trying to scare frac-harmed plaintiffs into silence and violently arresting innocents to enable oil & gas profits; too many criminal, lying politicians (that appoint our judges or become judges); lying “justice” lawyers; lying, rule-violating public interest lawyers; etc etc etc.

2020: All in the Protti Family? What are the connections between law-violating CSIS, law-violating Encana, propagandist big oil lobby group CAPP, law-violating EUB/ERCB/AER and the big banks?