The Bureau: The Bureau‘s cyber and law enforcement sources, including experts from agencies including the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have explained that Beijing is patiently positioning itself — collecting encrypted messaging data from Western users while its universities and state-linked hackers advance quantum computing technologies powerful enough to break into private Western communications.
Without entering complex legal territory, it is fair to say that enough credible experts have made the case that Ottawa would be opening the door and handing Beijing the keys to exploit exactly these kinds of structural weaknesses. In passing Bill C-22 as written, Canada would be legislating a gift to the adversary.
Meanwhile — and this is the central failure that Bill C-22 shares with its predecessor — the legislation does nothing to address the actual legal architecture that has allowed transnational criminal networks to operate in Canada with near impunity for decades…