{"id":103104,"date":"2026-06-19T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103104"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:02:52","slug":"nobody-voted-for-this-kind-of-dystopian-nightmare-carney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/nobody-voted-for-this-kind-of-dystopian-nightmare-carney\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody voted for this kind of dystopian nightmare, Mr. Carney!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Liberal Party, having engineered themselves a majority in the House of Commons, are on a speed-run to the kind of dystopian police state we used to read about in science fiction novels<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Millions of Canadians are beginning to see the similarities between communist regimes and the direction of current government policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pattern is always the same.<\/em><\/p>\n

It begins with noble promises: safety, equality, compassion, protection, the greater good.<\/p>\n

It ends with censorship, coercion, surveillance, prisons, ruined lives, and a police state.<\/p>\n

Always.<\/p>\n

It comes wrapped in slogans, experts, committees, emergency powers, censorship, enemies of the people, and the belief that the state has the right to crush the individual for the greater good.<\/p>\n

Consider…<\/p>\n

C-2 – Strong Borders Act<\/em>
\nC-22 – Lawful Access Act<\/em>
\nC-34 – Safe Social Media Act<\/em>
\nC-36 – Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act<\/em>
\nC-9 – Combatting Hate Act<\/em>
\nC-25 – Strong and Free Elections Act<\/em>
\nS-209 – Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act<\/em><\/p>\n

All seven are live in the 45th Parliament right now. None has received royal assent yet.<\/p>\n

Consider that good, law-abiding Canadians are being gradually and systematically disarmed.<\/p>\n

This is not a warning about some distant future.<\/p>\n

In 2022 the federal government invoked emergency powers it did not have, froze the bank accounts of citizens over their political views, and banned Canadians from funding a protest. Two levels of court have since ruled it unconstitutional — a violation of the very Charter rights every one of these bills now circles.<\/p>\n

That was the trial run. It needed an emergency as the excuse.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The seven bills above are the permanent version — the same reach, made routine — so that next time, no emergency need be declared at all.<\/p>\n

A free country is not lost in a single day<\/strong>. It is legislated away in pieces, each one introduced with a reassuring name and defended as necessary, while good people keep assuring themselves it could never happen here.<\/p>\n

It already did. The only question is whether enough Canadians notice before it becomes permanent.<\/p>\n

Read every bill. Watch every one of them. Because this is the stage where it can still be stopped … and perhaps our last chance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms<\/a> is trying to get Canadians to pay attention to what just one of these bills will do:<\/p>\n

Bill C-34 will affect every Canadian. Age verification. AI regulation. A new Digital Safety Commission. Most Canadians have never heard of it. Here’s what it will do.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Geist<\/a> posts a Substack Note about bill C-22:<\/p>\n

Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, has been reported back from committee and is headed toward passage. There are some amendments, but many concerns remain. The updated bill with changes is at<\/p>\n

parl.ca\/Content\/Bills\/4\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

There are two changes to metadata retention. First, the maximum retention period the government can impose drops from 1 year to 6 months. Second, it can now mandate a category of metadata only if satisfied the category and all its elements are essential to investigations.<\/p>\n

The committee rewrote the definition of systemic vulnerability. A “substantial risk” becomes a “credible risk, based on recognized international technical standards”. But it also added a carve-out: a flaw exposing only a target’s data is not “systemic”.<\/p>\n

Added a new section on decryption that says nothing in the Act can be read to compel a provider to decrypt user-encrypted data, unless the provider supplied the encryption and holds the key. Borrowed from US law, but doesn’t fit the same way.<\/p>\n

Compliance with ministerial orders is now expressly subject to the systemic vulnerability exception. That addresses a contradiction in the original text, where the duty to comply appeared to be unconditional.<\/p>\n

The original bill set no maximum duration on these ministerial orders. This now changes to a two-year cap without the open-ended review-and-extend mechanism.<\/p>\n

The amendments will rightly leave many still concerned. Companies considering exiting Canada due to Bill C-22 are unlikely to conclude that it fully addresses their issues. Yet the government is likely to push it through the House today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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