🇨🇦 Liberals hide consultation report behind Bill C-22 surveillance expansion

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree refuses to release Murray Rankin's consultation report that supposedly guided their rewrite of Bill C-22, granting police sweeping new powers to intercept communications. The bill hits committee this week, but the government claims the very document justifying these intrusive powers is somehow privileged legal advice. Convenient. They promised transparency after Bill C-2 crashed due to lack of consultation, hired Rankin to fix it, then classified his findings. Civil liberties groups who participated are baffled by the secrecy.

This is the Liberal playbook: invoke national security, expand state surveillance, hide the rationale, then gaslight Canadians about accountability. They want warrantless access to your digital life but won't show you the homework that allegedly proves it's necessary. If the consultation supports their case, why bury it? Because scrutiny destroys narratives, and this regime survives on opacity.

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