Reports

Since 2020, the Government of Canada has introduced eight bills that collectively expand state control over Canada’s internet, including online speech, news distribution, and streaming services. Framed as protecting Canadians from hate, misinformation, and foreign threats, laws passed and pending grant government institutions unprecedented power to manipulate algorithms, compel platform payments, and enable warrantless surveillance, internet disconnections, and expanded speech criminalization. This report traces Canada’s legislative shift from an open to a controlled internet where government determines what may be said, seen, and shared online. It shows how Canada’s historic departure from its tradition of open discourse toward state-managed digital speech undermines democracy and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.