@barcis2.bsky.social:
Holy shit! I’ve been “screaming this into the void” since the election! Bills C-2 and C-5 are basically a “Trumpish” approach to “freedoms”… @mark-carney.bsky.social
is NOT the BS we were led to believe!
@PaulChampLaw:
Our political leaders are increasingly ceding control over our society to IT titans with vast wealth, enormous egos, and no maturity or wisdom and who view democracy as an impediment to their greatness.
@ProjectPearson:
And don’t be fooled – Palantir IS in Canada and doing the same things
Most evil fucking company on earth, in my view, and Herr Carney dances with the Nazi genocidaire douche fuckers via Cohere.
@jennykwan.bsky.social:
1/ Bill C-2, the so-called “Strong Borders Act,” isn’t about safety. It’s about normalizing surveillance, criminalizing migration, and attacking Canadians’ privacy and Charter rights. We cannot allow this government power grab to pass. #cdnpoli
openparliament.ca/debates/2025…
2/ The Liberals’ Bill C-2 makes Harper’s Bill C-51 look tame.
It hands sweeping new powers to police & CSIS—without warrants or oversight.
Doctors, banks, landlords, even psychiatrists could be forced to share personal data. This is surveillance creep.
3/ Bill C-2 opens the door to U.S. access to Canadians’ data.
In a post-Roe America, where abortion & LGBTQ2IA+ rights are under attack, this is profoundly dangerous.
Canadians must not have their personal medical records exposed to foreign governments.
4/ Civil liberties groups across Canada are sounding the alarm:
X Charter rights at risk
X Warrantless surveillance
X Foreign data-sharing
X Refugees shut out
This isn’t border security. It’s the road to a surveillance state.
Bill C-2 is a deeply flawed bill. It hands the govt sweeping new surveillance powers & threatens Canadians’ privacy.
It would even let law enforcement demand info—w/out a warrant—on whether you’ve seen a doctor, psychiatrist, or other providers
@jeff.doctor:
“Bill C-2 is not about safety; it is about normalizing surveillance, criminalizing migration, bypassing Parliament and public debate, and attacking Canadians’ privacy and charter rights. It would undermine due process, and it is a power grab.”
@outtaflushing.bsky.social:
If you think “we can trust Carney”, “there are checks and balances built in”, “there is judicial oversight”, “our institutions and traditions are rock solid”, then think again. We are the perfect example of the Constitution, the courts, and institutions becoming vaporware in a matter of months.
@greenglassworm.bsky.social:
100%. C2 is possibly the worst tabled legislation in my lifetime and it must be stopped. It is a totalitarian overreach and disqualifies Mark Carney from fitness for leadership.
The Liberal Party is finished.
I will never vote for them again. Ever.
@journodale.bsky.social:
The National Post is just salivating about going after a trans law professor at U of A.
It’s so great that we’re just wholesale importing America’s culture war here. FFS
Open Letter: Bill C-2 Strong Borders Act
Sponsored Content By Internet Society
The Right Honourable. Mark Carney, P.C., O.C., M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree P.C., M.P.
Minister of Public Safety
CC:
The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab P.C., M.P.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
The Honourable Sean Fraser P.C., M.P.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Open Letter: Bill C-2 Strong Borders Act
Dear Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anandasangaree,
The undersigned civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including members of the Global Encryption Coalition, urge the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2, An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures (Strong Borders Act).
Bill C-2’s stated aim is to improve security, but Parts 14 and 15 would do just the opposite by giving the Canadian government broader powers to access private information without a warrant and force services to install “technical capabilities” to access Canadians’ encrypted communications and sensitive data. The consensus among cybersecurity experts is clear. There is no way to provide backdoor access to encrypted data and communications without compromising the privacy and security of millions of law-abiding citizens. Failing to ensure adequate safeguards for use of encryption could lead to poor interpretations of the bill’s supposed protections against “systemic vulnerabilities,” leading to encryption backdoors.
Forcing businesses to create backdoors for law enforcement and intelligence agencies would:
- jeopardize the security and privacy of people in Canada and abroad, including children and vulnerable communities.
- expose Canadians to domestic and international surveillance.
- undermine the growth and resilience of Canada’s digital economy.
- subject Canadians to the rising cost of cybercrime.
Strong encryption is crucial to keep private information out of the wrong hands. In a digital society where online services, including AI companies, are increasingly collecting, compiling, and selling identifiable and sensitive data, encryption is often our last line of defense for privacy and security online.
Preventing people and businesses from protecting themselves with the strongest security tools available would be disastrous.
Breaking encryption is a threat to border security and national security
There is no such thing as a backdoor that is only open to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. And if you build it, the question is not ‘if’ adversaries will exploit the vulnerability, but ‘when’.
The 2024 Salt Typhoon cyber espionage campaign is a stark reminder that backdoors are never only available to the ‘good guys’. Nation-state attackers gained access to highly sensitive US national security information in part using a built-in wiretap capability in US telecommunications networks. Furthermore, infected US telecommunications companies may never be able to undo the espionage campaign’s compromise to their networks. Salt Typhoon’s wiretap breach happened as a result of a US policy decision that forced telecommunications infrastructure companies to create a dangerous backdoor that attackers could exploit.
Part 15 of Bill C-2 could do far worse—threatening the security of virtually any Internet-based service (within Canada and abroad) that receives similar orders, as well as the individuals and businesses that rely on them.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security recently issued a bulletin about Salt Typhoon’s distinct impact on Canadian companies, and that at least one telecommunications company may have already been targeted.
Canada will become a hotbed for cyber incidents and Canadians will shoulder the cost
Canadians are increasingly at risk of data breaches and financially motivated cybercrime. Statistics Canada says Canadian businesses spent 1.2 billion on cyber incident recovery in 2023. Strong encryption is crucial to help prevent and mitigate the impact of cyber incidents. It allows people, businesses, and networks to send sensitive information over the Internet so eavesdroppers and attackers cannot see or tamper with the content.
This is critical to making sure online services (e.g., banking, ecommerce, tax filing, telemedicine)—as well as the Internet infrastructure that makes them possible—operate in the way that people and businesses expect. The volume and impact of cyber incidents could soar under Part 14 and 15 of Bill C-2 and the cost will most certainly be passed onto consumers, contributing to an already growing cost of living and doing business in Canada.
Bill C-2 will push innovation, talent, and investment dollars away from Canada
Requiring businesses to reconfigure their systems specifically to enable access to communications systems to comply with government orders would force businesses to choose between weakening the security of their services, putting users’ security and privacy risk, or withdrawing their secure services and/or products from Canada altogether. Either choice will weaken security for Canadians.
This has already happened. A recent United Kingdom (UK) government order issued to Apple under its Investigatory Powers Act led Apple to stop offering Advanced Data Protection within the UK, rather than weaken the security of its product by providing the UK government with backdoor access. The so-called protections related to “systemic vulnerabilities” in Part 15 of Bill C-2 are not adequate to protect the security and integrity of Canadian data.
While some businesses may choose to move out of Canada altogether, Canadian companies that are not able to leave the jurisdiction will likely suffer the economic consequences of a distrusted tech sector. An Internet Society-commissioned report on the economic consequences of laws that weaken encryption found that Australia’s Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) (TOLA) Act caused massive distrust in Australia’s tech sector and significant financial losses. One company interviewed estimated an “adverse economic impact” to the order of AU$1 billion.
Vulnerable populations will be at greater risk of harm
Bill C-2’s lawful access provisions would erode a last line of defense to ensure people can have safe experiences on and offline. International human rights bodies and child safety experts have recognized the importance of encryption to protect the safety and privacy of people, including children and vulnerable communities. Encryption ensures people have safe lines of communication online when they need it most.
For survivors of domestic violence, encryption is a lifeline that secures confidential communication about escape plans and protecting victims (including children) from abusers. For children, it means schools and health authorities can help keep their sensitive data out of the hands of predators. For Indigenous communities and marginalized groups, it can help create safe spaces to engage in advocacy and connect with communities while avoiding harassment and surveillance online. Encryption also protects people from transnational repression, shielding sensitive data from other governments that could misuse it to silence criticism through intimidation or threats of violence.
Bill C-2 sets up Canadians for international surveillance
Bill C-2 could expose everyone in Canada to international surveillance. This would include information sharing amongst intelligence partners like the USwhich is wholly corrupted, managed and owned by genocidal Israel, Australia, and the UK if its powers are used to support foreign law enforcement requests. For instance, Canada is currently negotiating a CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) agreement with the US, which could give the US greater power to advance their domestic law enforcement interests in Canada. Such an agreement could incentivize and give leverage to US authorities to ask the Canadian government to force companies to create encryption backdoors. Enabling governments intrusive warrantless access to sensitive information could have the effect of turning regular citizens and institutions into foreign assets, including immigration lawyers, healthcare providers, and academic institutions.and anyone not conned by Carney, knows he’s proven himself unrtustworthy, he’s pro Nazi, pro Zionism, pro genocide, pro USA, pro billionaire, pro polluter, while being anti-ordinary Canadian, just like Herr Harper1. Herr Carney and how masterfully he has conned intelligent Canadians terrifies me.
Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anandasangaree: Don’t make one of your first acts of Parliament to jeopardize Canada’s digital security, privacy, and safety on and offline.
The undersigned signatories ask that the federal government withdraw Bill C-2 to address the immediate threats in Part 14 and 15 and conduct a full study including consultations and an Internet Impact Assessment to mitigate other risks in the Bill. This due diligence will help ensure the Bill aligns with its goals to improve safety in Canada, by making sure people and businesses have the strongest tools to avoid data breaches and the next major cyberattack, promote the resilience of Canada’s digital economy, and protect people and vulnerable communities from harm.
Signatories:
Organizations
Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI)
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
Center for Democracy & Technology
Emerald Onion
Indigenous Connectivity Institute
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
Internet Society
Internet Society UK England Chapter
Internet Society Manitoba Chapter Inc.
Internet Society Québec Chapter
LGBT Tech
OpenMedia
Privacy & Access Council of Canada
SECURECRYPT
The Tor Project
Tuta Mail
Individual Experts*
Sofia Celi, Brave / University of Bristol
Robert Diab, Thompson Rivers University
Dr. Jean Dinco
Jeff Doctor, Animikii Indigenous Technology
Dr. Richard Forno, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute
Ronald L. Rivest, MIT
Kate Robertson, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Adam Shostack, Author, Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
Kris Shrishak, ICCL – Enforce
Chad Walter, Paperclip Inc.
Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University
*Affiliations listed for identification purposes only
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The Right Honourable. Mark Carney, P.C., O.C., M.P.I don’t know why they call an obvious con man “honourable.” He is a fraud dancing under liberal party costume when he’s clearly a Charter and Canada hating Harper con.
Prime Minister of Canada
The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree P.C., M.P.
Minister of Public Safety
The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab P.C., M.P.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
The Honourable Sean Fraser P.C., M.P.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
The Honourable ????? Fuck, the guy’s a liar! He’s an American Repuglican. He lied about and doxxed a Canadian journalist subjecting her to rape and death threats. FFS! Andrew Scheer P.C., M.P.
Leader of the Official Opposition
The Honourable?????? Pee Pee’s a lying rage and hate farming Nazi who lost his seat in the federal election and cavorts with law violating violent Canada hating Fucker Truckers. Pee Pee can’t even get security clearance. Nothing honourable about the sleazy fuckerPierre Poilievre P.C., Leader, Conservative Party of Canada
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet M.P., Leader, Bloc Québécois
Mr. Don Davies M.P., Interim Leader, New Democratic Party
Ms. Elizabeth May O.C., M.P., Leader, Green Party of Canada
Open Letter Calling for Amendments to Bill C-2
Dear Prime Minister, Ministers, and Honourable Leaders of the Opposition,
We write as a group of law professors and lawyers who study, teach, and litigate privacy rights in Canada.
We believe portions of Bill C-2 (the Strong Borders Act) will be found unconstitutional and do not strike a reasonable balance between privacy interests that Canadians hold dear and those of law enforcement.
We are aware that Bill C-2 is effectively omnibus legislation, raising a broad range of concerns that implicate migrant rights, Canada’s commitment to gender-based violence survivors, and our regime for information-sharing with other governments. Here, we highlight three privacy-related aspects of the Bill that we view by broad consensus as unreasonable and contrary to the rule of law. These aspects of the Bill demonstrate the serious need for revision and a more general reconsideration of Bill C-2.
First, the ‘information demand’ power to be added to the Criminal Code as section 487.0121 would give police, without a warrant, a breathtakingly broad power to ask any person who “provides services to the public” — such as a doctor, psychiatrist, or dating app — invasive details about the services they delivered to a particular subscriber, client or account. This power is unreasonably broad and lacks adequate safeguards. While a lawyer seeking to protect privilege or a company seeking to resist the demand in good faith can challenge a demand in court, they only have 5 days to do so before facing potential criminal sanction. This represents both a significant expansion of surveillance powers as well as a reduction in checks against potential abusive requests. The government has provided no justificationThe orange kid raping Nazi demands it and Carney is too eager to provide, rights of Canadians be damned, just like he’s fucking us and our environment serving USA’s Nazi Regime and profits for big polluters with Bill C-5for such a significant disruption of the existing balance between law enforcement powers and the right to privacy, which raises the constitutionality of the change into doubt. It is particularly difficult to see why existing procedures for seeking a production order under the Criminal Code are insufficient, given that these orders can be obtained within a few minutes by telewarrant. The information in question can be requested even faster where truly exigent time constraints exist.
Second, we are concerned that Bill C-2 will undermine Internet security by introducing security vulnerabilities and backdoors to the kinds of encryption that Canadians rely on to keep everything from their banking to their private correspondence safe. The Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA) contains broad powers to compel electronic service providers to make technical modifications that would allow law enforcement direct access to private data. The law’s non-enforcement provision for “systemic vulnerabilities” in “electronic protections” is an inadequate safeguard with little practical effect. “Electronic protections” only relate to encryption and authentication measures, meaning that systemic vulnerabilities in other technical safeguards can be required. The Act further allows the Minister to define what constitutes a “systematic vulnerability”, as well as other key terms such as “encryption” or “authentication”, giving rise to the risk of compelled backdoors in end-to-end encryption. The back-and-forth debate around encryption backdoors has been ongoing for decades now, and since the earliest days of the Internet, Canadians have understood that the public benefits of robust and accessible encryption outweigh any limits on law enforcement capabilities that flow from these protections.
It is troubling to see this legislation attempt to reopen this debate yet again, especially since the Act places no meaningful limits on measures that providers can be asked to take to assist in making modifications or carrying out inspections.
Third, the SAAIA’s accountability framework poses a danger to the security of all Canadians. The Act imposes no oversight mechanisms on the Ministerial power to order technical modifications and pilot testing of surveillance capabilities, giving rise to the possibility that some might inadvertently provide for real-time interceptions without a warrant. For Ministerial orders, the SAAIA imposes sweeping secrecy requirements, without any need to justify them before the courts or even assess whether they are needed. Neither the law’s ministerial orders, nor its public regulations, are subject to an independent assessment of their necessity and proportionality. The law should subject ministerial orders and law enforcement access under the Act to independent oversight. If this involves the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Commissioner’s investigative and remedial powers should be specified in the SAAIA.
Although we view these three areas as pressing, our privacy concerns with the proposed legislation extend to other areas, including steps to expand “voluntary” collaboration with telecommunications providers through revised declaratory and indemnity provisions, and expanded avenues for collaboration with foreign law enforcement or national security agencies.
Canadians deserve a robust and open debate on the privacy implications of this legislation. If the Bill is passed in its current form, it will cause immediate and significant harm to personal privacy in Canada. It will undermine confidence in government and foster antagonism toward law enforcement and uncertainty about the security of our information. Courts will likely strike down the information demand power, and years from now, experience with the SAAIA will likely result in recommendations for reform along the lines we set out here.
Better to get it right the first time.
Yours Sincerely,
Robert Diab
Professor of Law
Thompson Rivers University
Michael Karanicolas
Associate Professor of Law
Palmer Chair in Public Policy and the Law
Dalhousie University
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh
Assistant Professor of Law
Lincoln Alexander School of Law
Toronto Metropolitan University
Teresa Scassa
Full Professor
Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Matt Malone
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Michael Geist
Full Professor
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Lisa Austin
Full Professor
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Argyri Panezi
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Digital Information Law and Policy
University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law
Florian Martin-Bariteau
Associate Professor
University Research Chair in Technology and Society
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Jonathon W. Penney
Associate Professor
York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Jane Bailey
Full Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Gideon Christian
University Research Chair (AI and Law)
Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
Avner Levin
Full Professor
Lincoln Alexander School of Law
Toronto Metropolitan University
Pascale Chapdelaine
Associate Professor/Professeure agrégée
Chair in Law, Intellectual Property, & the Digital Marketplace
University of Windsor, Faculty of Law
Katie Szilagyi
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
*Academic affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
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@tryangregory.bsky.social:
“Tough on crime” while planning an austerity budget that will inevitably mean cuts to social programs that actually reduce crime, sweeping police powers, laws that will be used to suppress protests. Carney is taken Canada down a very dangerous, America-like road.
Remember racist abusive law violator Canada-hating fucker, Steve Harper?
@jeff.doctor July 28, 2025:
“The U.S. wants Ottawa to pass Bill C-2… ‘At the heart of what the U.S. wants is to join arms in law enforcement with Canada, with the same kind of toolkit that they use: intercepts under FISA warrants, the Patriot Act,’ the official said”
www.politico.com/newsletters/…
lol wtf is this, Canada’s version of the Patriot Act? The Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA) compels electronic service providers to “fulfill legally authorized requests to access or intercept information and communications”
I guess they are getting ready to criminalize Idle No More 2.0
Seems kinda important “Cohere [the Canadian “AI” darling], which focuses on multilingual models, has formed a partnership with Palantir, which supplies software infrastructure to entities like US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).” bsky.app/profile/tech…
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International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) @iclmg-csilc.bsky.social:
URGENT: Bill C-2, the rights-violating, anti-privacy, anti-migrants omnibus “border” bill, is being debated in Parliament right NOW! Please send an email (again if you have already) to stop it before the vote to send it to committee: iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/ thank you! #Canada#cdnpoli#stopbillC2
@tinyteerex.bsky.social:
Puts Carney’s Bills C-2 and C-5 into a far more interesting light – not to mention the choice to back down on the digital services tax.
Carney is making (and will always make) policy that benefits shareholders. He doesn’t give a fuck about human rights or a better world & never will.
@scpartners.bsky.social:
More evidence that #OwnershipMatters when growing a resilient, sovereign Canadian economy.
@journodale.bsky.social:
The spectre of Jason Kenney is back in #QP with horror stories about “bogus asylum claimants.”
The Liberals are useless in response, with Diab unable to respond and MacKinnon praising Bill C-2, which will violate rights.
Carney copies Trump and or follows his orders so I fully expect Carney will go after LGBTQ+ once Nazi USA has taken women’s right to vote away after criminalizing all birth control and abortion, and American girl’s and women’s rights to their own bodies, and once Carney has also decimated Canadian women’s/girl’s rights.
@sashafury.blackskycomra.de:
‘In tabling Bill C-2 in June, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree scratched the surface of why immigration officials needed the powers to “cancel, suspend or vary” immigration documents and processing of new applications “en masse for reasons determined to be in the public interest.”’
Wow.
Canada’s new immigration bill seeks power to cancel or suspend applications and documents. Experts say these are the groups likely to be targeted, Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, is seen as an attempt to cut soaring immigration backlogs and processing times. by Nicholas Keung, Sept. 15, 2025, Toronto Star
Ottawa’s Strong Borders Act has been sold as a bill to strengthen the border and keep Canadians safe, but experts say a hidden — and crucial — objective is to slash ballooning immigration backlogs and processing times.
In tabling Bill C-2 in June, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree scratched the surface of why immigration officials needed the powers to “cancel, suspend or vary” immigration documents and processing of new applications “en masse for reasons determined to be in the public interest.”Nothing about Mark Carney, Harper2, or his evil Bills C-5 and C-2 are in the public interest, they serve to quicken increased rape and pillage and profit taking with zero impact assessments/accountability by polluting destructive fossil fuel companies and at the expense of Canadians, make the rich richer, mostly AmeriKKKans, and they serve the white supremacist mass murdering Nazi Trump Regime, its military, ICE, police, FBI, etc., and Israel’s racist mass kid killing/spy tech (including Steve Harper’s) and agencies
“A perfect example of this is the number of applications that came in for temporary resident permits during COVID,” he said in the House. “We were compelled to process them, because there was no mechanism … to be able to cancel or suspend those applications. This essentially gives additional tools” to the immigration minister “to do just that.”
While it remains unclear in what areas immigration officials would apply the new power, legal experts spoke to the Star about which applicant groups or particular programs would likely be targeted, and why.
The possibilities could be unlimited, allowing officials to create knee-jerk policies on the fly making immigration pathways more unpredictable and unfair to applicants, critics said.While making everything more predictable for the rich, notably Nazis and tech billionaires and their data and privacy raping corps, and for fossil fuel companies (by letting them spy on and attack impacted persons and or concerned public/communities protesting massive polluting harmful projects largely benefiting AmeriKKKan billionaires and their companies).
“When they say public interest, that’s anything really,” said Toronto immigration lawyer Daniel Kingwell. “They can turn on a dime. They can suddenly refuse to process many cases. They don’t have to deal with the messiness of finding some reason to refuse that might not be reasonable” to a court.
Canada has been viewed as one of the world’s most welcoming countries, with relatively clear pathways for permanent residence. However, over time, the system has put more weight on immigration candidates’ Canadian education credentials and job experience, creating an incentive for migrants to come as temporary residents to study and work.
Given limited processing capacity, the queue has gotten longer and longer, especially since the pandemic, when generous policies opened the door for many international students and foreign workers to extend their stay here.
As of July 31, more than 2.2 million applications were in the system, including 892,400 for permanent residence and 1,079,300 for temporary residence, with the rest for citizenship. Half of the permanent resident applications and 38 per cent of the temporary resident applications had exceeded the government’s own processing timelines.
The problems echoed the challenges faced by former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, which in 2012 passed a law to eliminate the permanent residence backlog in the federal skilled workers program from before Feb. 27, 2008, by terminating those that had not been decided by March 2012.
The Federal Court dismissed a lawsuit by affected applicants, ruling the legislation was compliant with the Bill of Rights and the Charter.
With Bill C-2, which has a good chance of passing with the Conservatives’ Carney and Pee Pee lead the same party – the Harper Conned Canada Party. Pee Pee’s job is to enrage and disgust civil Canadians (eg not Fucker Truckers, separatists, or MAGAts) into blinding and voting for Haper2 – Carney! Evil Slick Trick, serving Nazi AmeriKKKa and Israrelbacking, experts expect the Immigration Department to take into account the size of the backlog and length of processing times in deciding what programs to go after. Humanitarian programs that bring little economic benefit to the country would also be likely on the chopping block.Carney is a cruel fucker, even more cruel than Harper
Vancouver immigration lawyer Marina Sedai believes the start-up visa program and self-employed persons program might see applications pending in the system cancelled, as the former’s processing time has reached 53 months while the latter has already been suspended earlier this year until 2027.
“Many applications are from people inside Canada,” said Sedai. “If they unexpectedly have their permanent resident applications returned and their temp residence (is) done, they are going to fall out of status. The Canada Border Services Agency is going to be … on the hunt for these people.”All to please Carney’s boss, immigrant hating, racist Nazi AmeriKKKa
Lawyer Andrea Baldwin said Ottawa already has certain power to restrict application intakes for things such as study and work permits, but Bill C-2 would greatly enhance the government’s power to cancel, suspend or vary issued documents like visas and permits in “prescribed circumstances,” which are undefined.
She fears migrants in lower-skilled, lower-wage jobs would be disproportionately affected.
“So they are going to come, work for a couple years and make some money to send back home,” said the Halifax-based immigration lawyer. “And then they will have no future here, which is what many other countries do.”
Another targeted class might be refugees sponsored by private groups for resettlement in Canada, a process that’s now taking years, said Ken Zaifman, who practises immigration law in Winnipeg. The goal of the bill, he added, is unequivocally to clear the backlog in order to reset the immigration system.
“We know what Bill C-2 may do, but we don’t know what the policy reset looks like,” said Zaifman, adding that Ottawa would need to impose program “filters” to cap application intakes and keep backlogs in check.
In addition to targeting specific immigration programs, Kingwell, the Toronto lawyer, said the broad stroke of the bill could allow profiling of individual applicants such as those with minor criminal records, those represented by an immigration counsel found breaching the law, and from certain countries.
“It’s good for them politically to be able to just cater to whatever the flavour of the day is whether it’s anti-immigrants generally, whether it’s suddenly all Chinese students are potential spies, and other political outgroups in Iran,” he said.
“There’s no way the Conservatives are going to shoot this down unless for some reason they think it’s advantageous to make the Liberals look bad on not passing it into law.”
@lalegault.bsky.social:
Bill C2 is not an immigration Bill:
@openmediaorg.bsky.social:
Today we’re releasing a joint letter signed by 160+ civil society groups, academics, and lawyers demanding full withdrawal of #BillC2.
This dangerous surveillance bill is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian.
The government calls it the “Strong Borders Act.” That’s a lie.
Bill C-2 is shameful appeasement of US pressure, NOT a good faith effort to protect our country. It trades away the rights of people in Canada to soothe the Trump administration. 2/7
action.openmedia.org/page/173242/…
What does C-2 do? It gives police & spies a shocking new power to access your account info WITHOUT a warrant. With a warrant, your online activity, private messages, data history—all opened up on a new low bar of mere ‘suspicion.’ #StopBillC2 3/7 www.cbc.ca/news/politic…
And C-2 paves the way for foreign dictatorships to get their hands on your data too.
By laying groundwork for the CLOUD Act and problematic cybercrime treaties, it sets us up for massive new data requests from US and other foreign entities too. 4/7
Bill C-2 also abandons Canada’s legal obligations to refugees under international law. It would strip people of their right to claim asylum FOR LIFE, for arbitrary reasons. It slams the door on people fleeing war and disaster. It’s not who we are. 5/7 migrantrights.ca/c2pressrelea…
We’re proud to join 300+ organizations today demanding our gov #StopBillC2. This legislation is too broken to be fixed. It was drafted in secret, without a shred of public consultation, and it betrays the government’s promises to protect our rights. 6/7 openmedia.org/assets/2025%…
Bill C-2 trades our real rights off to appease Trump’s fake border crisis. That’s a bad deal we must reject! Parliament is debating Bill C-2 TODAY, and needs to hear from you. Join us in demanding the government WITHDRAW Bill C-2 completely NOW! 7/7 action.openmedia.org/page/173242/…
@scotthrm.bsky.social:
I signed the petition.
This is dystopian horseshit.
@karcanada.bsky.social:
CANADIANS! You need to sign this and repost to prevent Trump-style security here, and if you value your privacy at all! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en…
@intrusivesone.bsky.social:
Jesus, why does this read like he’s ready to head a Vichy Government in Calgary.
Been too busy with US politics I haven’t been able to keep up with Canadian.
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