According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Canada is rushing Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Bill, through Parliament without serious debate, despite fierce opposition from privacy advocates and tech companies. The bill would mandate metadata retention, expand information sharing with foreign governments, and allow Canada's Ministry of Public Safety to demand encryption backdoors from tech companies. Those backdoors would effectively break encryption. Signal, Apple, Google, and major VPN providers say they'd either cut service to Canada or disable features rather than build backdoors. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Citizen Lab analyzed the bill and concluded most of its elements are beyond fixing. Canada's government wants it passed by June nineteenth. Civil liberties groups argue the bill deserves full study and debate—not a deadline-driven jam session.

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