CBC: “The costs are potentially huge,” said Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa’s Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, and a vocal critic of the bill.
“That has competition-related effects in terms of who bears those costs. Will they exempt certain providers? It gets very messy very quickly.”
Section 15 of what is now Bill C-22 would require “electronic service providers” — a broad category of businesses — to update their systems so they can seamlessly turn over information to law enforcement agencies and CSIS, if they have a warrant, as part of criminal and intelligence investigations…