But beyond the stunning breadth of the information demand power, there should be serious concern with how the government has crafted a system that is unprecedented in its secrecy and lack of transparency. Simply put, there will be millions of information disclosures every year and Canadians will be kept in the dark on both an individual basis and in terms of the overall scope of warrantless demands.
There’s a lot going wrong in this bill and it absolutely warrants some serious revisions. I find the provisions that prevent firms from communicating with customers about security vulnerabilities particularly troublesome.
Geist’s Law Bytes podcast has a good summary episode on this bill too.