Last mentioned: Mar 25, 2026
Committee Review
The bill is expected to move to parliamentary committee for expert testimony and potential amendments.
Public Criticism Mounts
Privacy experts and academics like Michael Geist publish detailed critiques of the bill's surveillance mandates.
Bill C-22 First Reading
The Canadian government introduces Bill C-22 in the House of Commons, focusing on metadata surveillance.
Bill C-30 Introduced
The 'Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act' is introduced but later withdrawn due to privacy backlash.
The Canadian government has introduced Bill C-22, a controversial piece of legislation that revives 'lawful access' provisions and mandates mass metadata surveillance. While the bill attempts to reform warrantless access, critics argue it creates dangerous backdoors that compromise the privacy of Canadian citizens.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Government of Canada across our cybersecurity coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running cybersecurity beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Government of Canada was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |