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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