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.

https://pdfhost.io/v/jMu3NWfVDd_CCCan_-Weisdorf-Canada_Telecom_Internet_Bills-Critical_AI_Analysis-_July_2026

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.

https://pdfhost.io/v/kZ3GsxU632_CCCan_-Weisdorf-AMPs_in_Canada-History__Creation__and_Evolution-_July_2026

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.

Nearly five years ago, Adam Skelly became the first business owner in Canada charged criminally for defying a public health order. What followed was a five-year legal battle — six separate proceedings, hundreds of pages of expert evidence, and a fight that has now reached the Court of Appeal for Ontario following the Superior Court’s ruling this past March.

This case is different from every other COVID-era legal challenge still standing. It’s live. It has standing. And it rests on the evidence of six independent experts — spanning pharmacology, epidemiology, statistics, economics, virology and immunology — whose reports have never been refuted by the government in cross-examination. Concerned Constituents of Canada (CCCan) has sponsored this fight from the outset, and the road to the Court of Appeal isn’t cheap.

That’s where you come in.

Join us for a relaxed backyard meal in North Burlington — good homemade food, honest conversation, and a real update on where the case stands and what comes next.

Saturday, July 11, 2026 | 4:00–10:00 PM
(Rain date: Sunday, July 12, 2:00–8:00 PM)
North Burlington / Brant Street & Ester Drive area(exact address sent upon registration)
$30/person — covers a full homemade food spread (salads, cheeses, specialty breads, hot and cold meats, baked beans, veggies, dessert; vegetarian and vegan options available)
Please bring your own chair and alcoholic beverages

Featuring:

● Rodney Palmer — former CTV analyst & CBC investigative journalist, on “How Our Trusted Media is Continuing to Fail Us and Erode Democracy”

● Adam Skelly (joining remotely)

● Jody Ledgerwood — TFM Report

● Ian Perry — litigator on the Adamson case

● Chris Weisdorf — on Bills C-8, C-9, C-22 and C-34

● Michael Alexander — litigator on the Dr. Mark Trozzi case

● Vincent Gircys — retired OPP

Registration is required by Wednesday, July 8 — space is limited, and the exact location will only be shared with confirmed guests.

All proceeds support Concerned Constituents of Canada (cccan.org) and the ongoing costs of appellate litigation. Beyond the ticket price, donations of any size are deeply appreciated — this case has already cost over half a million dollars to bring this far, and every dollar helps carry it to the Court of Appeal and, if necessary, the Supreme Court of Canada.

Register by e-transfer to ccoc4freedom@protonmail.com