#privacy issue

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Picture this: it’s a lazy Saturday, and suddenly you’ve got an incoming call from the RCMP.

You know you haven’t done a thing wrong. But they’d like to ask you some “routine” questions about things they somehow already know: 

Why have you been visiting a private medical clinic the last three years? 

What kind of business are you conducting with your psychiatrist? 

Why have you been paying dues to several private associations this year? 

Just routine information about you they’ve gathered in the course of their business, they say. Just information they can collect on ANY person in Canada, with NO warrant, since the government passed Bill C-2.1,2

Give to stop Bill C-2!

This kind of mass information collection is not a dystopian movie; it’s coming to Canada very soon, unless we stop Carney’s surveillance Bill C-2. It’s the greatest expansion of privacy invasion by the Canadian government since Harper’s infamous Bill C-51.3 We have to stop it, now.4,5

More than 8,000 of your fellow OpenMedia community members have already taken action and said NO. We’re working with HUNDREDS of peer organizations to create a firewall of opposition and force our MPs to listen.6,7,8,9 It’s starting to work; they’re slowing down and starting to confront the dangers of this bill.10,11,12

But to kill Bill C-2 for good, we need to be ready for the fight of our lives from August through December—in the House, at committee, and in the Senate if it gets that far.

Times are tough, and some of the monthly donors who kept us going for years can no longer afford to give. Your support is now more critical than ever. Will you make a donation to power this crucial 2025 fight and defend the privacy of everyone in Canada?

Yes - I’ll give to stop C-2!

P.S. The fight to stop C-2 is 100% driven by YOUR people power; we don't have a dime from corporations or government. If you’re able, please make a gift today to STOP Bill C-2!

More about Bill C-2 from Jenna below:

Hi Samuel,

Prime Minister Carney said he’d keep his “elbows up” against pressure from the U.S. But his first major move in office? A surveillance bill. Bill C-2, the so-called “Strong Borders Act,” hands sweeping powers to police and spy agencies, giving them the right to dig into your digital life without a warrant, and even fast-track your private data to U.S. authorities, whether you’ve done anything wrong or not.13,14,15

And just when we thought it couldn’t get worse, Carney cancelled the digital services tax just hours before it was set to take effect. A simple tax that would’ve finally made Big Tech pay their fair share in Canada, scrapped in a desperate attempt to please Trump and reopen trade talks.16

This is what a dangerous pattern of capitulation looks like!

Bill C-2 is the most serious attack on our rights and privacy since Harper’s Bill C-51,17 and if we don’t stop it now, it will become law within months. But fighting back means organizing all summer and fall to make sure MPs hear us, feel the pressure, and vote NO.

That’s why we’re turning to you for help now. Can you chip in today to fuel the fight to stop this anti-rights, anti-privacy, anti-Canadian bill in its tracks?

Fuel the fight today!

To kill Bill C-2 before it’s too late, we need MPs to vote it down. But many MPs are brand new, and they haven’t heard from people like you yet.

This is our moment to show them Canadians won’t sit quietly while our freedoms are stripped away. We need to raise our voices to remind our elected leaders that Canadians don’t stand for mass surveillance. We need to flood inboxes to make it impossible for them to ignore us. Because when it comes to our rights, silence is not an option! We fight back. We organize. We defend our rights.

If that’s the kind of Canada you believe in, chip in today to help ramp up this fight! Every dollar helps us reach more people, and generate the pressure we need to shut down Bill C-2 once and for all.

Give to kill Bill C-2!

Thank you for standing with us!

Jenna at OpenMedia

Sources

Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries – The Citizen Lab

“Big Brother Tactics”: Why Bill C-2’s New Warrantless Disclosure Demand Powers Extend Far Beyond Internet and Telecom Providers – Michael Geist

Privacy Commissioner’s Annual Report confirms that system is broken when it comes to Bill C-51 and CSE metadata sharing – OpenMedia

Are there 'snooping provisions' in Carney's massive border bill? – CBC

Lawful Access on Steroids: Why Bill C-2’s Big Brother Tactics Combine Expansive Warrantless Disclosure with Unprecedented Secrecy – Michael Geist

Stop Carney’s Surveillance Plan: Stop Bill C-2! – OpenMedia

Over 300 Organizations Unite to Demand Complete Withdrawal of Bill C-2 – OpenMedia

Advocacy groups warn federal bill could give law enforcement sweeping powers to access information – CTV News

Border security bill would give law enforcement access to internet subscriber information without a warrant – The Globe and Mail

RELEASE: Raising Alarm Over Border Bill’s Civil Liberties and Refugee Rights Implications – Elizabeth May, MP

CANADA’S NEW BORDER BILL SPIES ON YOU, NOT THE BAD GUYS – Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Net News Ledger: Critics Warn Bill C-2 Could Open Door to Warrantless Surveillance of Canadians – Jenny Kwan, MP

The Strong Borders Act - Government of Canada strengthens border security – Public Safety Canada

Border security bill would give law enforcement access to internet subscriber information without a warrant – The Globe and Mail

The G7 condemned transnational repression, but will Canada meet its own commitments? - The Globe and Mail

White House says Canadian PM ‘caved’ to Trump demand to scrap tech tax – The Guardian

I used to see a lot of yankees laughing it up about how they're so free and age verification/digital ID is just a hyuck hyuck commonwealth nations thing.