I'm somewhat concerned with the level of discourse in these comments; there's frankly a _lot_ of, well, ignorant americans talking about the civics of a country they clearly know nothing about. Would there be any chance of having a short note in the top text to the effect of “please keep in mind when you comment that you're discussing a foreign country that, in spite of the cultural similarity, does not work the same way as the US does.”?

Perhaps it's too late for this particular submission, but something to keep in mind in the future.

Can you change the title? It's far more inflammatory than the content, and people here are reacting solely to it.

Geist's headline is

"A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to Warrantless Access But Dangerous Backdoor Surveillance Risks Remain"

not

"Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians (michaelgeist.ca)"

I am OK with this.

Thanks he has been consistently awesome on the topic!