Canada’s Conservative government and its intelligence agencies are vigorously defending the state’s arrogation of the power to spy on Canadians’ electronic communications.
For months they sought to obscure under an avalanche of disinformation, half-truths, and lies the fact that the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has been collecting and analyzing the metadata of Canadians’ telephone calls, text messages, and internet use since at least 2005.
