As a US citizen, I feel pretty confident that my government wouldāve been doing mass surveillance on the population of Canada already regardless of whether they legalized it.
Still a difference if they get data for free or if they have to steal them.
I donāt understand this moveā¦werenāt Canadians fed up with the U.S. and the current Administration?
The governement acting against the will of its own citizens?
After all, there was this recent poll which revealed that a slight majority of people would like Canada to join the UE!
As a French philosopher put it:
Nowadays the geography of values is more important than the value of geography
No government has ever acted against the will of itās own citizens. I should know. Iām an United Statesian.
Apparently, threats and blackmail work.
What exactly do you not understand about governments serving their own interests?
IMO, your US govt monitors almost all countries, just as almost all countries monitor the US. Perhaps US surveillance is not as good as some others, but better than most.
Every time the US complains or accuses another country of spying, and or meddling in US corporations, govt, military, election, I am reminded of the āPot Calling the Kettle Black.ā
Canadian data storage, web sites, and most digital data is stored/run on servers in the US. My municipal govt stored our data on US servers because even with the crazy dollar difference sans insane tariffs, is cheaper than Canadian servers.
The company I worked for would recommend US servers over Canadian servers. Until recently, unless theyāve changed things our health data storage was managed by a company in the US.
I believe that Bill -C2 is more about surveillance
than privacy and safety. We already have the Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA), a self-proclaimed domain name authority and Registrar that began back in the day when registering a domain name was free. Not the new āfreeā that costs us our rights to privacy, really - no cost, and it would take maybe up to 15 minutes, usually just 5 minutes, to register a domain, make it live on a server and propagate sooner.
CIRA is indirectly controlling, in part, the Canadian Internet turning it in to another mirror of the Google catalogue.
Bill C2 pulls that āIf we can save just one person from Internet harm, itās all worth it.ā card from itās sleeve.
That on top of Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that proclaims:
Our vision: A safe, secure and prosperous Canada, through trusted intelligence and advice.
Yeah. That from the guys and gals that surreptitiously used facial recognition.
In summary, I think all govt spy on all their own people and are in charge of us, not us in charge of them - even though we pay their wages.
Canadians are already a open book. Just ask the US govt.
~s