We thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts who registered and attended in Burlington on Saturday, July 11th. It was our best event in years and the donations you all made will definitely make a difference in the Adamson BBQ / Adam Skelly appeal.
Above is the keynote from Rodney Palmer, who was a longtime journalist for the CBC and CTV. He blew the whistle on journalistic integrity- or lack, thereof- regarding COVID and left the mainstream media.
Funnily enough, I opened the event with my talk, which was about precisely the same subject: Canada morphing into a tyrannical, totalitarian, surveillance state.
Here is the document promised to all registrants at our fundraiser, which is an AI-generated analysis that I carefully constructed. All of the bills I discussed, and what Rodney indirectly referred to, are included. This is certainly not legal advice of any kind, but is to be shared with legal professionals in the hope that they’ll ACT with litigants to defeat these horrendous pieces of legislation.
Additionally, here is a companion piece describing administrative monetary penalties (“AMPs”) and civil asset forfeiture, which are the legal enforcement mechanisms employed to make people and corporations bend the knee to the government. We truly need a constitutional amendment to bar them without a criminal conviction required to take place first. Canada and the US, both. Enough is enough.
Make no mistake about it: these bills are the next, great, legal battleground as they grant the government sweeping powers to gain a stranglehold of all telecom and internet services in Canada. Streaming (C-11) and online news (C-18) regulations have been in force for the past three years. You’ve already felt their effects.
The new bills include the following:
● Bill C-8: the executive branch may employ a “kill switch” to ban anyone from the internet. Permanently– with a gag order that may also be permanent, similar to what Nicholas Merrill fought for 11 years in the US
● Bill C-9: hate speech definitions are added and expanded, with no religious exemptions
● Bill C-22: vacuum cleaner-type surveillance, which is indistinguishable from Russia’s long-time SORM electronic surveillance system
● Bill C-34: surveillance of social media and AI tools, a ban on underage usage, with digital ID verification for all to ensure only legal age persons use them
Small and medium-sized internet services providers will be under heavy pressure to sell out to Bell and Rogers to act as unpaid spies for the government, and to foot the capital and operating costs for this totalitarian surveillance regime. That means no competition for internet services going forward, complete control over your internet service, with secret proceedings, secret service bans and secret gag orders.
We have a lot of work to do. The Adamson BBQ / Adam Skelly challenge is the first and most important piece to pave the way for victories for whoever decides to challenge these bills. They are, and have always been, highly interconnected with our efforts. We stand at the ready to assist prospective litigants and counsel.
