The Liberals are turning Canada into a surveillance state — one bill at a time
'We're moving towards a communist China social credit type system,' John Carpay said, 'where the government has access to where you are and who you communicate with and what you do.'
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Article by Rebel News staff
Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, the federal Liberals have introduced their sixth internet censorship bill in as many years — and, once again, it's dressed up as a rescue mission for children.
That's according to John Carpay, founder of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, who joined Ezra from Calgary to walk through what he calls a methodical, bill-by-bill construction of a Canadian surveillance state. The latest entry, the so-called Safe Social Media Act, would bar teens under 16 from social media. Carpay says the policy sounds reasonable and works nothing like it's advertised.
"We're moving towards a communist China social credit type system," Carpay said, "where the government has access to where you are and who you communicate with and what you do."
Carpay laid out the full inventory: the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11), handing internet authority to the CRTC; the Online News Act, which killed news links on Facebook; the Cybersecurity Act, letting cabinet ministers order companies off the internet; the Combating Hate Act (Bill C-9); and the Lawful Access Act (Bill C-22), which has already pushed Signal and Telegram toward the exits. The Safe Social Media Act makes six.
Each bill alone looks modest. Together, Carpay argues, they form a machine: a Digital Safety Commission with the power to fine platforms up to $10 million or three per cent of global revenue, and a 24-hour takedown window that guarantees companies will censor first and ask questions never. Enforcing an age ban, he notes, requires proving everyone's age — which means a national identity check every time an adult opens a browser.
Australia already tried this. Carpay cites a 70 percent circumvention rate within months, with teens using fake IDs, borrowed logins and printed photo masks. Ottawa is charging ahead regardless.
Carpay also flagged a case in which the BC Human Rights Tribunal fined X $100,000 for failing to block content from American users — a Canadian tribunal attempting to police speech in another country entirely. It's the kind of overreach these new commissions will be built to replicate, at scale.
The one check left may come not from Ottawa but from Washington. The Trump administration's under-secretary of state for free speech, Sarah Rogers, has been pressing allies directly on the issue, and Canada's auto sector gives the U.S. real leverage the moment these bills start functioning as trade irritants.
"Governments never take away rights and freedoms without offering a nice-sounding pretext," Carpay said. Six bills in, Canadians are still waiting for Ottawa to explain why safety keeps requiring the surrender of everything else.
GUEST: Long form with John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
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Paul Scofield commented 2026-07-02 19:08:31 -0400Assessing American companies massive fines because they will not do what some idiots in BC want is an exercise in stupidity. Please, BC HRC, please. Fine Elon Musk and X 3% of their revenue for pointing out that the Kamloops Residential School story is one great big hoax and try to collect. The Trump administration and Elon Musk will cornhole you so quickly, that you will constipated for a month. And rightfully so. Keep poking the bear, Carney. One day…. -
jerry stone commented 2026-07-02 13:49:49 -0400We are screwed even with lawyers like Carpay working for us To many lawyers and doctors have been assimilated , just look at the recent rulings . I know my cousins ex Superior and Supreme court judges are spinning in their graves .How many will die in this insane war of the sane verses the insane ? It will be a long war with many victims
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Angela Watt commented 2026-07-02 08:54:54 -0400If the companies say they’re leaving Canada if certain bills are passed, they’ll be likely charged an “exit tax” because that’s what Canada is doing now. How stupid is this government of ours? Chase them out & then expect them to pay for the privilege. -
Angela Watt commented 2026-07-02 08:46:39 -0400Rather than implementing all these Bills, why isn’t government telling or informing parents what THEY can do on their kids’ phones to protect them. I didn’t realize that what Ezra said that there were “tools” that parents can use. So inform parents what they can do so that they ARE aware. These Bills are absolutely all about control & nothing else. It’s NOT about protecting children, it’s NOT about harm reduction, it IS about total control over all citizens!!
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Angela Watt commented 2026-07-02 08:38:55 -0400You can’t post anything from Rebel News on X already w/o going about it in a sneaky way. It’s already happening.
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Tony Salotti commented 2026-07-02 07:35:38 -0400I don’t think we can save Canada now . Hope I’m wrong though . I was born in 1957 and it isn’t like it used to be . It defiantly started changing during Pierre Trudeau’s reign .
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-07-01 23:49:18 -0400Sorry, Bruce, but Canadians will not revolt as a whole. In fact, they want more of the same, so long as it “fights Trump”. That was one of the tactics that PET used.
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Lizabeth Sawyer commented 2026-07-01 21:38:26 -0400Can anyone see a way out of this ever tightening noose? The situation seems hopeless. Dreaming of a Liberal free Canada.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-07-01 21:08:45 -0400If the government went full censorship, the people would revolt. So they bring in a lot of confusing and mind-numbing legislations to hide their corrupt actions. And since there’s nowhere to run once the world government is established, it will be way harder to take back our freedoms. Judging from human nature, the censors will get their way.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-07-01 20:28:40 -0400By the way, this is a typical communist policy. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union would often jam incoming shortwave signals by broadcasting noise on the same frequencies. People still managed to hear what was being transmitted and it turned out that the most popular show on Voice of America was its jazz program.
That sort of censorship still goes on. After the incident at Tiananman Square in 1989, two anti-communist stations began broadcasting to China. One was Radio Free China (a U. S. government-backed parallel to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty out of Munich), with the other being Sound of Hope (privately-funded by people who, I believe, were associated with Falun Gong). The PRC’s response to that was to jam those broadcasts with firedrake music. It was hard not to notice those signals. -
Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-07-01 20:17:36 -0400Wherever he is now, PET must be delighted. After all, he was the one who began regulating what Canadians could watch on TV or listen to on the radio, starting with things like the silly Cancon rules and his prohibition on privately-owned direct-to-home satellite TV dishes.
