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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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.
COMMENTS
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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. -
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 -0400 FlagIf 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 -0400 FlagBy 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 -0400 FlagWherever 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.
