Let me go back to what you said.
You believe it strikes the proper balance. Yesterday, you criticized big tech companies and suggested they needed to step up in protecting Canadians' privacy rights, and that may be true. You even accused them of misinformation.
Apple, Google, Meta, Signal, civil liberty groups and privacy law experts, including the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, all testified that Bill C-22 could weaken encryption, create systemic vulnerabilities and expose Canadians to greater cybersecurity threats, putting our security even more at risk. Were all of those witnesses wrong, including the Privacy Commissioner?
