I didn't have time to watch much of that committee meeting video, but from what I did see it seems highly unlikely that they're going to do anything to meaningfully change the situation. Time to retire all the rhetoric about Chinese companies being untrustworthy because they're subject to secret orders to spy on their customers on behalf of their government, because the same is about to be true in Canada.

But it wasn't the final meeting, I guess there's still time for some kind of miracle.

[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree the situation looks dire but it’s important people understand what’s going on.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah I have no idea how to keep track of what's going on with it myself, let alone how to get word out to everyone else who's going to be affected by this national disaster of a legislative project. It would be nice if we had a press that was interested in or capable of covering this sort of thing.

There's another committee meeting on right now and I only know about it because I happened to remember to check.

I tuned in to watch for a few minutes and saw a Conservative MP asking sensible questions that I guess someone had written for her but not really following up on or challenging the responses to them, which were composed of a lot of vague hand-waving denials by the Liberals that any of the problems are a problem, without actually addressing any of the points made. Democracy in action!

It's a real contrast to committee meetings I remember watching in decades past when I used to tune in to CPAC more frequently, where real expertise was often on display. Support for this bill would fall apart under the slightest scrutiny if the reality-based community were more involved the debate. But what debate there is, it's just for show. It's a majority government, they do what they like — and if someone tells them it's a bad idea they must be the enemy.