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Stop the Muzzle and Monitor Bill Before It Destroys Free Speech and Privacy

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Stop the Muzzle and Monitor Bill Before It Destroys Free Speech and Privacy

Stop the Muzzle and Monitor Bill Before It Destroys Free Speech and Privacy

petition author imageCitizenGO – started this petition to Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly, Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree, and all MPs – 2025/10/08

Bill C-8, officially titled An Act respecting cyber security, has passed Second Reading and now moves through committee toward a final vote. Although framed as a cybersecurity measure, it functions as the Muzzle and Monitor Bill, a sweeping law designed to silence dissent and monitor citizens without oversight.

If passed, the bill grants the Minister of Industry the power to order telecom companies to disconnect individuals from internet, mobile, and payment services in secret.

No warrant. No judge. No public explanation. No appeal. No process. No transparency.

One internal directive is enough to erase someone’s digital presence.

The bill also enforces a mandatory gag order. Any person disconnected must remain silent. Speaking to friends, journalists, or even the courts triggers immediate fines: $25,000 for a first offence and $50,000 for each repeat offense.

Businesses face up to $15 million in penalties for warning customers, refusing an order, or going public. Company executives who object will face criminal charges and jail.

Censorship is only the beginning. Bill C-8 also builds the legal foundation for mass surveillance. It allows government agents to collect Canadians’ browsing history, location data, and financial records, all without a warrant.

Encryption backdoors become possible. Privacy disappears. Once a backdoor is created, it will not stay in government hands. Hackers and foreign adversaries will find it.

While civil liberties collapse, critical infrastructure remains unprotected. No new safeguards apply to hospitals, schools, or essential systems. The bill strips freedoms without securing anything.

Bill C-8 does not stand alone. It forms part of a broader framework that now includes:

  • Bill C-9, the so-called “Online Harms Act,” better described as the Everything is Hateful Bill, which redefines broad categories of expression as punishable “hate.”
  • Bill C-2, the “Strong Borders Act,” better described as the Peeping on Canadians Bill, introduces sweeping powers to monitor, collect, and centralize private data across government agencies.

Together, these bills create a legal regime of censorship, surveillance, and ideological control.

Speech is regulated. Privacy is erased. Dissent is punished.

Legal scholars, human rights advocates, and cybersecurity experts have all raised the alarm.

This is not a debate about safety.

It is a shift toward authoritarian governance.

Call on Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly, Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree, and all MPs to vote NO on Bill C-8, the Muzzle and Monitor Bill, and to defend our rights to free expression, privacy, and lawful access to digital services.

Sources:

Bill C-8 would allow minister to secretly cut off phone, Internet service, CCF warns -Canadian Constitution Foundation

Bill C-8 could strip internet, phone access for dissenting persons – Rebel News

From Bill C-26 to Bill C-8: House of Commons Reintroduces Key Cybersecurity Legislation – Dentons Data

Parliamentary Library: Legislative Summary of Bill C-8

Cyber security Bill C-8 passes second reading | The Catholic Register

Bill C-8 revives Canadian cyber security reform: What critical infrastructure sectors need to know

Government needs to fix dangerous flaws in federal cybersecurity proposal – CCLA

Federal Bill C-8 signals coming change for Canadian cybersecurity | Insights | MLT Aikins

Bill C-8 | openparliament.ca

Government Bill (House of Commons) C-8 (45-1) – First Reading – An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts – Parliament of Canada

CANCEL CULTURE: THEY DIDN’T LAUGH AND YOU WON’T GET THE CHANCE: Calgary venue cancels comedian Ben Bankas over Indigenous joke

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A Calgary casino cancelled a performance by Toronto comedian Ben Bankas after receiving two complaints about jokes he made regarding residential schools.

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A Calgary casino cancelled a performance by Toronto comedian Ben Bankas after receiving two complaints about jokes he made regarding residential schools.

“They said that they got two complaint emails, and they forwarded one of them to me,” Bankas told True North. “I guess some woman saw the video on Facebook and was offended.”

The video, posted to social media by Bankas on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, showcases him from a previous set saying that he’d just returned from Winnipeg, and it was like “an Indigenous zombie apocalypse.”

“I was thinking it’d be nice if there’s, you know, some sort of school we could send them to,” he continued. “Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. Say what you want about the residential schools, but you know, it’s nice architecture… I’m just saying it like those schools… If you wanted to go to a residential school now, in 2025 it’d be like $40,000 a year. Those motherf**kers got it for free.”

He was scheduled to play at the Grey Eagle Casino on the Tsuut’ina Nation in Calgary on Oct. 24, but the venue cancelled after receiving two complaints.

“This comedian goes by the name of ‘Ben Bankas,’ is due to perform at your event centre on October 24 2025 as advertised on social media,” reads the complaint shared with Benkas. “I would strongly advise your team to reconsider unless some sort of public apology is made to the Indigenous people of Canada.”

The comedian had performed in Calgary several times at the Yuk Yuk’s comedy club in recent years before moving to the Deerfoot Inn & Casino for larger seating capacity.

“For two years I was doing sold out shows at Yuks and then we stepped up to Deerfoot, and then this was like the next step up,” said Benkas. “I think they still should have done the show even though they were offended,” reflected Benkas. “But with everything that’s going with Bill C-8 and C-9, it’s a…weird time.”

Bill C-8 is currently before Parliament for its second reading, which would make changes to the Telecommunications Act. Section 15.2 (1) of one of the Bill’s parts enables the federal government to “prohibit a telecommunications service provider from providing any service to any specific person, including a telecommunications service provider.”

The justification for doing so includes “any reasonable grounds to believe it is necessary to do so to secure the Canadian telecommunications system against any threat, including that of interference, manipulation, disruption, or degradation.”

Meanwhile, Bill C-9, entitled An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places), was introduced last month.

The proposed legislation would define “hatred” in the Criminal Code.

When asked whether he faced any other backlash from the video, Bankas said there were a few “death threats and weird DMs (direct messages).”

“One person said they ‘were going to hunt me down like the animal I was,’” he said.

Before the show was cancelled, roughly 1,700 of 2,300 available tickets had been sold. While those who purchased tickets have been refunded, the two parties involved are still sorting out payment.

“It’s unconfirmed if they’re going to pay me because there was a guarantee,” he said. “It wasn’t a percentage of ticket sales. So it’s up in the air whether they’re going to pay me or not. I think they should.”

When True North contacted Grey Eagle Casino, they stated the show was cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances” but declined to comment on Bankas’ financial situation.

Outside of the recent venue cancellation, Bankas said his career is going great.

“Audiences love it. The shows are all selling out. Pretty much everything is sold out for the next two months,” he said. “I just put out a special aimed mostly towards a Canadian audience called Invasion. It’s on my YouTube channel.”

The show at Grey Eagle Casino has been relocated to Yuk Yuk’s comedy club in Calgary for seven shows between October 24 and 27.

Serious Loss of Civil Rights For Freedom Convoy Leaders: No prison for Tamara Lich, Chris Barber as judge hands conditional sentence

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Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber and Tamara Lich will largely remain free after being handed a conditional sentence in the Ontario Court of Justice for their involvement in the Freedom Convoy.

Alex Zoltan, True North and Walid Tamtam, True NorthOct 7
Trial begins for Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber | True North
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With files from Walid Tamtam

Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber and Tamara Lich will largely remain free after being handed a conditional sentence in the Ontario Court of Justice for their involvement in the Freedom Convoy.

A judge on Tuesday handed Barber an 18-month conditional sentence and Lich a 15.5-month conditional sentence (i.e. house arrest).

Importantly, neither sentence will require time in prison. Instead the punishments will be served at home under certain conditions, including curfews – contrary to the Ontario Crown Prosecutor demanding 8 and 7 years in prison for Barber and Lich, respectively.

The decision was delivered in a packed courtroom.

The judge outsourced Barber’s sentence to the Saskatchewan Court of Justice for conditioning and monitoring.

Lich’s conditional sentence was also transferred to Medicine Hat, Alb., for administration and monitoring.

The trial of Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, which some commentators have referred to as “the longest mischief trial in world history,” stems from their leadership of the peaceful anti-vaccine mandate Freedom Convoy movement in 2022.

The protest “bear-hugged” the nation’s capital for several weeks, creating a gridlock near Parliament, the sentencing judge said.

For their involvement in the February 2022 Freedom Convoy protest, Barber and Lich were each found guilty of one count of mischief. Barber was also found guilty of counselling others to disobey a court order.

The protests, initially sparked by opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, grew into a broader movement against the federal government, drawing thousands of demonstrators and extensive law enforcement scrutiny.

The Crown had argued their “leadership” in the protest helped sustain an unlawful occupation, disrupting residents, businesses and government operations.

On Tuesday, Perkins-McVey called that “leadership” “largely symbolic.”

Nonetheless, Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher had earlier asked the judge to impose extraordinary sentences—eight years’ imprisonment for Barber and seven for Lich—arguing that such heavy penalties would deter similar protests.

During sentencing, the Ontario Court Justice said R v. King and the Coutts border blockade were the two most informative cases in determining an appropriate sentence.

Curiously, Perkins-McVey did not give similar attention to Supreme Court Justice Richard Mosley’s decision that the Trudeau government’s imposition of the Emergencies Act, which was the basis for the arrests of Lich and Barber, was unconstitutional.

That judgment remains subject to numerous federal government appeal

Bernier slams Truth and Reconciliation Day, calls residential school ‘genocide’ narrative a ‘hoax’

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Bernier slams Truth and Reconciliation Day, calls residential school ‘genocide’ narrative a ‘hoax’

Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, condemned the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, stressing that ‘no bodies were found’ at residential schools.

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(LifeSiteNews) — People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier has condemned the residential school “genocide” narrative as a “hoax” on Truth and Reconciliation Day.

On September 30, as Canada observed the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Bernier pointed out the absurdity of celebrating a holiday based on the residential school “genocide” narrative, which has since been proven false.

“On this ‘National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,’ let’s remember that no bodies were found, that the residential schools ‘genocide’ is a hoax, and that reconciliation requires an end to the bs, the victim mentality, the fake white guilt, and the grifting based on it,” he posted on X.

Many Canadians commented under his post, thanking Bernier for his post and voicing their support of abandoning the holiday.

In 2021, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau installed September 30 as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, making it a federal statutory holiday. At the time, the Liberal-funded mainstream media began promoting inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran once-mandatory residential schools.

Canada’s Residential School system was a structure of boarding schools funded by the Canadian government and run by both the Catholic Church and other churches that were open from the late 19th century until the last school closed in 1996.

While some children did tragically die at the boarding schools, evidence revealed that many of the children passed away as a result of unsanitary conditions due to underfunding by the federal government, not the Catholic Church.

Now, four years later, there have been no mass graves discovered at residential schools. However, following claims blaming the deaths on the Catholic clergy who ran the schools, over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada in seeming retribution.

Since then, the Canadian government has quietly backtracked on its claims, refusing to publicly acknowledge its mistake.

Furthermore, as LifeSiteNews previously reported, internal emails revealed that federal workers questioned the residential school narrative as early as 2023 despite gaslighting Canadians who were suspicious of the media’s claims.

German Political Prisoner Alfred Schaefer Arrested Again As Flight Risk: Political Police Steal His Laptop & Cellphone

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German Political Prisoner Alfred Schaefer Arrested Again As Flight Risk: Political Police Steal His Laptop & Cellphone
October 7, 2025.  Minutes ago, the phone rang and I saw Alfred’s number. It was, however, not Alfred’s voice which greeted me. His loyal and lovely wife called to let me know that their home had been raided by the police once again, at 6 o’clock this morning. 


How could this be, I asked? The judge had released Alfred, and there had been no further proceedings since then. No – it was based on a different set of charges in a different jurisdiction. It was a different case. Here is the story.


The court in Munich has been compiling a case against Alfred since quite some time, and they decided that he was a “flight risk” because of the seriousness and extent of his transgressions. The list of accusations to be investigated – all of which are “speech violations” – comprised a 20 page document. After the house search, they took away Alfred’s cell phone, his laptop, some USB sticks and of course the man himself — Alfred Schaefer. He is now in “U-Haft or Untersuchungshaft”, which means in jail on remand while they conduct their investigation.


Their documents are never signed. Not the arrest warrant, nor the list of charges issued by the judge, nor any other paper-work contained a signature. 
Perhaps of a more trivial nature: Alfred’s wife noted that all the house raids which had been done (and there have been enough to notice a pattern) have been done on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Today is Tuesday.


I will post Alfred’s mailing address on the Political Prisoners page of both the truthandjusticeforgermans.com and freespeechmonika.com websites as soon as I have that information. I have blind-copied a few people with this update, and I ask you please to feel free to share this email to your lists. And check the websites please.
sincerely,  Monika Schaefer

Bill Whatcott Update:

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Whatcott Oct 4 Interview on Last Call Radio: Preliminary Trial Dates on Zoom

Monday October 27, Tuesday, October 28, Wednesday, October 29th, and Thursday, October 30th.

The hearing will be held in the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto on 393 University Ave. I will be attending on zoom and will try to get a zoom link from my lawyer this coming week for those of you who would like to attend this way.

In this Saturday morning interview, we talk about my personal life, ministry, and upcoming court hearings for the so-called “hate” crime prosecution I am facing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BBjrAO0GLlQ%3Ffeature%3Doembed

To watch the whole program or to subscribe to Last Call Radio you can do so on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6zua9a-10425-10-4-good-buddy-and-center-stage-in-drag.html

Thanks to a friend of mine in Hamilton who reminded me that this Sunday is “Life Chain,” I headed to Red Deer after church to join a couple dozen or so pro-life saints for the annual Life Chain in that city. It is easy to become self absorbed with our own problems, but we should consider Canada’s unborn. They are completely abandoned with no legal protection whatsoever. When they are dismembered they are given no anesthetic and the nature of suction abortions and diletation and extraction abortions is the baby’s deaths are not instant. They usually go through extreme suffering for a time while their bodies are being dismembered or pulled apart before they die.

” Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?” Proverbs 24:11, 12

I met the fellow in the picture above for the first time and found him to be a friendly and well informed Catholic pro-lifer. The group doing the Life Chain in Red Deer today was mostly Catholic, but there were at least a couple other evangelicals beside myself who attended.

My court hearing dates coming up at the end of this month are as follows:

Monday October 27, Tuesday, October 28, Wednesday, October 29th, and Thursday, October 30th.

The hearing will be held in the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto on 393 University Ave. I will be attending on zoom and will try to get a zoom link from my lawyer this coming week for those of you who would like to attend this way.

My trial dates are set for May 25-June 12, 2026. For my trial I am required to attend in person.

In Christ’s Service, Bill Whatcott

“The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as]have a contrite spirit.” Psalm 34:18

Assembly of First Nations Chief Reports Maxime Bernier for a Hate Crime for Saying No Bodies Were Fond at the Kelowna Residential School

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Last Tuesday, on “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,” I wanted to push back against the false and toxic narrative that we are being fed by the media and the establishment on that day.

I made a post saying we should remember that no bodies were found, that the residential schools “genocide” is a hoax, and that reconciliation requires an end to the bs, the victim mentality, the fake white guilt, and the grifting based on it.

As you can imagine, some people were not happy.

The Liberal minister of Indigenous Services, Mandy Gull-Masty, wrote an emotional open letter to denounce me, without refuting anything I said.

The Quebec/Labrador Assembly of First Nations asked me to issue “a clear and public apology.”

But the silliest reaction came from the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Cindy Woodhouse-Nepinak, who reported me to the police for “hate crime”!

Chief Woodhouse-Nepinak reacted like typical petty tyrants who think they can use state coercion to shut down political opponents and people they disagree with.

Nothing I wrote can be considered hate crime under current Canadian law — at least until new censorship laws are adopted by the Carney government.

Some activists have for years been lobbying to outlaw what they call “residential schools denialism,” meaning whatever questions the official propaganda.

And yet, everything I wrote is true.

No bodies were actually found in Kamloops since the 2021 announcement that the remains of 215 “missing children” had been found. There was no genocide.

And does the chief really believe the police can arrest me because of my personal opinion about the bs surrounding this issue, the fake white guilt and the grifting based on it?!

It’s obvious that chief Woodhouse-Nepinak doesn’t care about truth and reconciliation.

What she wants is to ban any questioning of the narrative that would threaten the flow of billions of taxpayers’ dollars from Ottawa.

Did you know that under Trudeau, annual federal spending on indigenous peoples tripled, from $11 billion to $32 billion!

With only modest improvement in the daily lives of indigenous Canadians.

We do need a new relationship based on mutual respect between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, as the CPC proposes in its policy on indigenous issues.

Not one based on lies.

The People’s Party is the only party that is not afraid to call a spade a spade, and is willing to reset this relationship on a sounder basis.

Former Political Prisoner Brad Love Not Allowed to Send or Receive Mail

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Former Political Prisoner Brad Love Not Allowed to Send or Receive Mail
Former political prisoner Brad Love is back in prison as a result of a non-political dispute. He’s in the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre.

Disturbing news. I heard from Matt, Brad Love’s brother today. He’s been told he received a letter from an American friend and CAFE newsletters (2 mailings) and a letter from a guy in California. He won’t be given them until his release October 21 for “security reasons.” Also, he’s not allowed to write any letters “for security reasons.”

Thus, he’s being held virtually incommunicado, denied the basic human right to communicate with others.

New Cybersecurity Bill Would Let Government Secretly Cut Canadians’ Internet and Phone Access

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New Cybersecurity Bill Would Let Government Secretly Cut Canadians’ Internet and Phone Access
The CCF has serious concerns with Bill C-8, the federal government’s proposed cybersecurity legislation, which would allow the minister of industry to secretly order telecommunications service providers to cease providing services to individual Canadians. According to the bill, the government would be able to shut down phone and internet access if it has “reasonable grounds to believe that it is necessary to do so to secure the Canadian telecommunications system against any threat, including that of interference, manipulation, disruption or degradation.” These orders would remain secret indefinitely, with the minister required only to present an annual report to Parliament on the number of orders made and their opinion on their necessity, reasonableness and utility.
The CCF fears this law could be weaponized to silence critics of the government at the whim of the minister, under the guise of vaguely posing some kind of “threat” to Canada’s telecom system. If you’re concerned by this alarming expansion of state power and the associated threats to civil liberties, use this form to write to your MP to demand changes to Bill C-8 and Bill C-2 (the Liberals’ recent “border security” bill).