Knight: Cybersecurity or control? Hidden threat in Bill C-8

Dan Knight: C-8 is being marketed as “cybersecurity.” The official pitch from Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne is that Canada’s networks, the veins and arteries of banking, commerce, health care, even emergency services are under siege from hostile foreign powers. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea. We’ve heard it all before. Huawei was banned from 5G last year. Sounds sensible, right? Who wants Beijing peeking into your home Wi-Fi? But that’s the shiny wrapping paper. Tear it off and you find something very different inside, something a lot less about hackers and a lot more about control…

Cybersecurity or Control? The Hidden Threat in Bill C-8

Last Friday in Ottawa, while most of the country was watching hockey or trying to pay bills in an economy that feels designed to break them, Parliament quietly moved forward with a piece of legislation that could rewire the… pic.twitter.com/7gxAJK6c8I
— Dan Knight (@DanKnightMMA) October 5, 2025

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Imagine being cut off from every facet of your online life, your social media, online banking, email, and work portal, without a court order and without being able to determine the cause.

This is what Liberal Bill C-8 could do to Canadians in the name of cybersecurity.

Without… pic.twitter.com/Ix8Ht7raST
— Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) October 5, 2025

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Knight: Cybersecurity or control? Hidden threat in Bill C-8