How a Liberal majority could hurt Canada’s digital sovereignty
With their newfound majority, the Liberals could take control of committees, giving them final say over the extent of Bill C-22’s sweeping new surveillance powers.
With their newfound majority, the Liberals could take control of committees, giving them final say over the extent of Bill C-22’s sweeping new surveillance powers.
On March 17, the federal government appealed to the Supreme Court a pair of lower court decisions that found its February 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was ‘unlawful.’
The Carney government’s first attempt at these laws, in Bill C-2, caused a backlash from civil liberty and privacy activists, some legal experts, and opposition politicians, and the new bill addresses some of the complaints.
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Nearly 60 per cent of rulings by committee chairs are being reversed when appealed, which is an increase from past minority Parliaments.


