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CTS panelists hope privacy bill, C-11, ‘dies quickly,’ say Canada is losing ‘military edge’ in digital age

News | 11/15/2021 9:07 pm EST
Panelists at the 2021 Canadian Telecom Summit in Mississauga, Ontario on Nov. 15, 2021/ photo by Jenna Cocullo

MISSISSAUGA — Ontario’s former privacy commissioner hopes the government’s proposed privacy bill — likely to be reintroduced by the Liberal government after Bill C-11 died on the floor when the 2021 election was called — “dies a fast death” and that telecom companies need to invoke measures on their own if they want to protect individual freedoms and prevent other countries from having a “military edge” over Canada.

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