Federal parties dismiss ‘bogeyman’ privacy concerns baked into affordability bill, as Senators consider major amendments 

The Liberal, NDP, and Conservative parties say Parliament must assert its jurisdiction over regulating federal parties as privacy and data advocates urge Senators to pull parts of the ‘privacy-busting bill’ C-4.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and interim NDP leader Don Davies. Lawyers for each of the political parties appeared before a Senate committee on Feb. 12 to urge them to keep the elements of Bill C-4 that touch on privacy and the Canada Elections Act.

Liberal, Conservative, and New Democrat party lawyers are urging Senators to pass a bill that privacy critics warn would undermine Canadians’ rights to and protection of their personal data months after the lawyers told a British Columbia court the Red Chamber had all but ...

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