At the 2025 Canadian Bitcoin Conference in Montreal, CBP’s Joey Temprile and easyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic gave a fireside on C-2 (The Strong Borders Act), C-8 – the new cyber-security bill, and C-9: the forthcoming Online Hate legislation.
No Due Process:
Warrantless surveillance and data collection gets enabled on various levels, while dropping previous requirements for due process (like warrants) and oversight. This includes ordering ISPs and ESPs (Electronic Service Providers) to turn over data or even bar them from providing service to specific persons or organizations.
Examples include Canada Post would acquire the ability to open mail in transit without a warrant.
ISP Gag Orders:
ISPs and ESPs are “bagged and gagged” – they are forced to comply with requests, even from quasi-governmental, and federal bodies that have nothing to do with law enforcement; and barred from both:
a) notifying the affected person or organization
and
b) disclosing that they are even under such an order.
Mission Creep
Bill C-2 was the “Strong Borders Act”, ostensibly legislation aimed at harmonizing border control with the US to stem the flow of illegals (both people and materials), yet it contained other measures such as the aforementioned snooping powers for Canada Post, and a ban on cash transactions (one, or several) amounting to more than $10,000.
As we remarked onstage – across all three bills (four, if you consider Bill C-12, which is carved out from C-2), the word “reasonable” is doing a lot of heavy lifting – replacing the requirement for warrants or other legal due processes.
