Totalitarismen är ännu värre i Kanada än i Sverige (än så länge?). Kanada är inte längre ett fritt land. Som motexempel läs gärna Malin Ekmans essä: Ett kärleksbrev till födelsedagsbarnet. Hur länge dröjer det innan EU inför motsvarande lagar?

SUMMARY

• Canada’s new cyber-security law, Bill C-8 (An Act Respecting Cyber Security), hands a cabinet minister the authority to order any telecom provider to cut off service to any named individual.
• The power requires no warrant, no prior judicial review, and under a gag order that can bar the provider from saying why.
• A new collection power lets the minister compel “any person” to surrender telecommunications data without a warrant.
• During committee study, Parliament considered and then stripped out the strongest safeguards: prior judicial authorization for orders, court control over secrecy decisions, and mandatory breach notification.

A Canadian law sold as protection for critical infrastructure establishes a mechanism for the government to reach into Canada’s telecommunications networks, collect data on the people using them, and cut off individuals from internet access, with judicial involvement absent at every step.

The Minister of Industry can now prohibit an internet provider from offering “any service to any specified person,” or order service suspended for a fixed period. The order takes effect the moment the minister signs it, following consultation with the Minister of Public Safety. No court reviews it first.

The order can forbid disclosure of its own existence, meaning a Canadian can lose phone and internet access while the provider is legally barred from explaining why. And the Act specifies that no one is entitled to compensation for the financial damage such an order causes.

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