{"id":64876,"date":"2023-01-28T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64876"},"modified":"2023-01-28T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T11:58:49","slug":"canadas-bill-c-26-yet-another-government-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64876","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/easydns.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/canadas-bill-c-26-yet-another-government-power-grab\/\">Canada\u2019s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_23507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23507\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23507\" src=\"https:\/\/easydns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/technocracy-1933.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/easydns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/technocracy-1933.jpg 800w, https:\/\/easydns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/technocracy-1933-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/easydns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/technocracy-1933-768x385.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Technocracy \u2013 a 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another doozy from the Canadian government.<\/p>\n<p>Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bill C-11<\/strong>\u00a0regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized content moderation, the requirement for licenses to publish online, and regulation of user generated content (<a href=\"https:\/\/gowlingwlg.com\/en\/insights-resources\/articles\/2022\/bill-c-26-rights-groups-oppose-infrastructure-law\/\">in Senate<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill C-36<\/strong>\u00a0the Online Harms Bill sought to designate political dissent as \u201chate speech\u201d and invoked penalties for criticizing politicians (not sure where this one is at the moment).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill C-18<\/strong>\u00a0throws a funding lifeline to Canada\u2019s flailing agitprop industry (a.k.a the mainsteam media), in that it will require tech platforms to pay licensing fees for content the media outlets post there (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parl.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/44-1\/bill\/C-18\/third-reading\">passed third reading<\/a>\u00a0in November). This bill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2022\/10\/why-the-real-bill-c-18-threat-is-bill-c-18\/\">will reward big media conglomerates<\/a>\u00a0like Bell, while freezing out small and independent organizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here comes another one,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parl.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/44-1\/bill\/C-26\/first-reading\">Bill C-36: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts,<\/a>\u00a0which passed first reading last June.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been largely flying under everybody\u2019s radar so far. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has been actively raising awareness and Michael Geist had Brenda McPhail, their Director of the Privacy, Technology and Surveillance Program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2022\/10\/law-bytes-podcast-episode-142\/\">on his podcast<\/a>\u00a0last October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lawbytes.castos.com\/player\/1295060\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nWe mentioned C-26\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/axisofeasy.com\/aoe\/axisofeasy-273-take-control-over-your-social-media-presence-with-mastodon\/\">in AxisOfEasy #273<\/a>\u00a0citing Gowling WLG\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gowlingwlg.com\/en\/insights-resources\/articles\/2022\/bill-c-26-rights-groups-oppose-infrastructure-law\/\">coverage of it by Brent Arnold<\/a>\u00a0(Brent Arnold sits on the Internet Society Canada Chapter board, as do I, but I am writing this post from my role as easyDNS CEO, and not ISCC.)<strong>The Government Hereby Grants Itself The Following Powers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new bill is ostensibly a cyber-security and critical infrastructure bill, but it is riddled with nebulous, open-ended terms, Kafka-esque secrecy provisions, onerous penalties and conspicuously absent of any semblance due process:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab Technocracy \u2013 a 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay. Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process Another doozy from the Canadian government. Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom\u2026 Bill C-11\u00a0regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29496,103,379,23383,1271],"class_list":["post-64876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-axis-of-easy","tag-canada","tag-government","tag-mark-e-jeftovic","tag-serfdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64877,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64876\/revisions\/64877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}