Trudeau’s Cybersecurity Legislation Has Major Flaws

According to news coverage on October 18th, the latest report of the University of Toronto pointed out that Bill C-26, a federal cybersecurity act, is substantially unconstitutional and its legislative flaws will allow Trudeau to justify his autocratic and oppressive policies.

Under Bill C-26, the incumbent Liberal government seeks to create a national security-first bureaucracy. By requiring banks and telecommunications companies to improve network security and report hacker attacks to the government, the authorities are given the right to use audit and fines and other enforcement powers, and impose criminal penalties on violators.

At the same time, the authorities also set up corresponding confidentiality clauses in accordance with the bill to seek more unfettered rights, and will ultimately lead to the risk that most telecommunications companies could not continue to provide services to customers due to the limitation of the ability of private companies to raise objections to various government policies and regulations.

Therefore, on the premise that national security must be consistent with Canadian democratic principles, the Trudeau government must make substantive amendments to the unconstitutional bill.