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Positive users praise Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke's shared article on tech and e-commerce trends as great news while negative users object to related Canadian digital bills as creating surveillance and a digital prison.
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@lucyhargreaves4 dont forget about the upcoming CBDC
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@lucyhargreaves4 Read this! It lays it all out. Canada is well on its way to being a digital prison
@lucyhargreaves4 @mgeist Federal government funded it in 2019. Piloted in British Columbia in 2024. Now coming to daylight in 2026. Most likely all legal by mid 2027.
@lucyhargreaves4 @ShareawareCdn I don’t recall the Liberals running on creating an Orwellian dystopia
@lucyhargreaves4 @SenatorWallin
@lucyhargreaves4 @mgeist 💯 Lucy nails it. A must read.
Post 1.
@MarkJCarney and your continuity government’s suite of digital bills, C-22, C-34, C-36, C-8, and S-209, represent another layer of technocratic overreach sold as child protection and safety, but delivering expanded surveillance, eroded Charter rights, and infrastructure for broader control while real failures in crime, economy, and integration go unaddressed.
These measures mandate metadata retention for up to a year, universal age/ID verification (biometrics, government IDs, facial estimation), secret orders to tech firms, and weakened independent oversight like the Privacy Commissioner. Framed around online harms, grooming risks, and youth mental health, they build permanent digital checkpoints that normalize national ID systems and mission creep from “for the children” to adult speech and data regulation. Signal has warned of exiting Canada; Apple and others raised alarms. Australia’s and UK’s experiments with similar age restrictions produced VPN surges, displacement to unregulated spaces, and minimal sustained harm reduction, exactly as critics predicted, while enforcement lags and platforms over-censor to dodge fines.
Canadians have seen this pattern under Trudeau-era continuity you now lead: Emergencies Act abuses (ruled unconstitutional), Operation LASER social media scraping, COVID mandates that courts later flagged for violating informed consent and conscience rights. Bill C-22’s lawful access expansions force providers to facilitate easier data handovers and retain location/interaction metadata. C-34’s Safe Social Media Act creates a Digital Safety Commission with vague “harmful content” powers and under-16 bans requiring verification. Others layer age gates for porn (S-209) and more. Existing Criminal Code tools already target predation, CSAM, and exploitation, rigorous, uniform enforcement with transparent recidivism and clearance metrics would protect better than new commissars fining platforms into preemptive compliance.
Your government presides over measurable decline that these bills distract from. Labour productivity remains near 71% of U.S. levels (OECD). Combined federal-provincial debt exceeds $2.3–2.4 trillion, with persistent deficits and rising service costs. Real per-capita GDP has stagnated or contracted amid technical recession signals in late 2025, early 2026. Grocery costs for a family of four near $17,500 annually after inflation spikes. Housing unaffordability persists. Over $670 billion in resource projects stalled by Bill C-69, UNDRIP parallel systems violating Charter Section 15 equality, and net-zero policies that force crude imports despite Canada’s third-largest reserves and lower-emissions production. Violent Crime Severity Index elevated from 2014 baselines in auto theft, assaults, and trafficking; two-tier enforcement eroded trust.
UK grooming gang inquiries (Rotherham, Telford, etc.) document 250,000+ victims, overwhelmingly White working-class girls, with 84-95% perpetrators of Pakistani Muslim heritage in examined group cases, enabled by institutional refusal to track ethnicity/religion for “cohesion” fears. Multiculturalism prioritizing sensitivity over evidence left children exposed. Similar blind spots compound risks here when immigration outpaces infrastructure and integration, with patterns in certain offence categories. One law for all demands mandatory stratified data for enforcement, swift deportations of foreign offenders, uniform bail/sentencing, and no parallel vetoes, facts over euphemisms.
@lucyhargreaves4 Everybody wants to live in a multiracial, multicultural democracy, but doesn't want to live in the authoritarian surveillance state required to keep order.
Borders used to keep people groups separate, but you don't want that. Enjoy.
@lucyhargreaves4 and No one is even talking about the end goal of CBDC digital id and the social credit score the EU he signed with is doing.
@lucyhargreaves4 And there's really nothing we can do to stop it. Too many people vote Liberal.
@lucyhargreaves4 Don't forget the "online hate" act which uses vague definitions and will use your thoughts, expression and beliefs to lock you in prison. Add that to the mix of the panoptican of our new "privacy" laws.
@benjaminsehl This is great news 🥳
Post 2.
Evidence-based reform rejects performative regulation. Prioritize parental tools, device controls, and education over state nannies. Enforce existing laws rigorously with audited outcomes. Fast-track resource/energy development under Charter-equal rules with statutory timelines. Restore fiscal discipline, selective capacity-tied immigration, and productivity via reduced red tape. Sunset clauses, judicial review, privacy audits, and no biometric mandates on any “safety” bill. Measure success by falling crime severity, rising per-capita prosperity, verifiable victim safety, not announcements or Davos optics.
Your Brookfield background and globalist pivots import managed decline from lower-productivity models while North American realities (energy leverage, targeted realism) deliver results elsewhere. Canadians deserve precision over propaganda: citizens first, evidence over excuses, one law for all applied without fear or favour. The raw data, Charter record, and outcomes under this continuity demand far more.
Barry E. Sharp
Precision over propaganda. Evidence over excuses. Canada First. 🇨🇦
@benjaminsehl Wow this is awesome. Kudos
@lucyhargreaves4 The desperation of kids to get their social media fix isn't exactly making a good point for you.
The main thing worth debating is the extension of exigent circumstances.
@mert @lucyhargreaves4 🤣😭
Necessary when fiat has reached the end of it's life by unlimited (but soon to be limited) debt creation. They are moving to financial repression and will inflate away (steal) your life's assets (own nothing and be happy). And they will create a crisis to convince you it's the only way. F#cking bankers.
@lucyhargreaves4 WEF IS, look @ Aus. UK! Canada's Bills C-22, C-8, C-9 & C-34 (Digital ID) gives total control! Creating total surveillance state with absolute power to define the crime & erase you off the internet & if you protest public detain you! Totalitarian Control!
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