Turning Canada in China in only a few short years and with Canadians' tacit permission:
Testifying at a Canadian heritage committee hearing on Tuesday, CRTC chair Ian Scott said, “[Section] 4.2 allows the CRTC to prescribe by regulation user uploaded content subject to very explicit criteria. That is also in the Act.”
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These guys want in on everything. Now it's our phones. #cdnpolitics https://t.co/nQxKnElgSb
— Alan Fryer 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 (@alanfryermedia) June 1, 2022
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A cabinet bill permitting cellphone searches by border guards is so vague it is certain be fought in court, the Senate national security committee was told yesterday. Civil rights groups opposed the measure: “A personal digital device is analogous to crossing the border with almost every piece of mail a person has ever received or sent.”
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Canada’s fledgling national security committee is facing another challenge after an Ontario court ruled its secrecy provisions violate MPs’ parliamentary privilege.
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) was created by the Liberal government in 2017, giving security-cleared MPs and senators a measure of review and oversight into Canada’s security and intelligence agencies.
Canada was a laggard in providing public oversight to the necessarily secretive world of espionage and intelligence gathering. NSICOP was meant to fill that gap.
But the committee’s secrecy provisions were such that MPs and senators would not be covered by parliamentary privilege – a foundational concept in the Westminster system, which gives politicians immunity in parliamentary debates.
In May, an Ontario Superior Court ruled limiting parliamentarians’ privilege would require a constitutional amendment.
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Google has taken the extraordinary step of writing to every MP and senator expressing fears that the online news bill is being rushed through Parliament without proper debate or consideration.
In its letter, Google warns that the bill needs more scrutiny because of its implications, including for the way the search engine ranks content and elevates information from “trusted sources” such as the government.
Bill C-18, as it is known in Parliament, is designed to support the Canadian news industry and would make online platforms such as Google and Meta compensate media organizations for reusing their journalism.
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It's called "covering one's @$$":
Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly told MPs the Freedom Convoy was an unprecedented challenge, but also said he didn’t ask the Liberal government for invocation of the emergencies act to clear the city’s streets.
“I did not make that request, I’m not aware of anybody else in the Ottawa Police Service who did.”
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After Conservative Luc Berthold reiterated the request for the government to provide “evidence and documentation” to support “maintaining the many health measures that are no longer required here in Canada,” Annie Koutrakis, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of transport, stood up and criticized the Tories for failing to denounce the Freedom Convoy and the border blockades.
So much for having a reasoned debate on the subject.
Being a Liberal means never having to explain why one is a bully.
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