GOV'T FILE NO. C-22 // CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC
Passed the House June 18
Now before the Senate · Not yet law
STOP
BILL C‑22
The “Lawful Access Act” would keep a months-long record of where your phone goes and who you talk to — even if you’ve done nothing wrong — and let the government secretly force companies to break the encryption that protects your private messages.
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§ 01 — In plain language
Imagine a law that made the post office photocopy the outside of everyone's mail and keep it for months — and forced every locksmith to install a spare keyhole only the government is “supposed” to use.
That spare keyhole is the catch. A back door built for the government is a back door criminals and foreign hackers go looking for too — and find.
You don't have to be doing anything wrong to be exposed by it.
It isn't law yet. The House rushed it through on June 18, but the Senate can still stop it — and a minute of your time right now actually counts.
Where the bill is
- ✓ House of Commons Passed 3rd reading June 18, 2026 — with debate cut off
- Study begins ~Sept 21 — amendments or rejection happen here
- 3 Royal Assent The final step that would make it law
§ 02 — Take action
Take 60 seconds. Be heard.
6 months
of metadata on people under no suspicion — still unjustified.
Encryption
companies could be secretly ordered to weaken it.
Senate next
passed the House June 18 — not yet law, still stoppable.
§ 03 — Why it can't wait
A record of everyone's movements and a permanent hole in encryption don't disappear when the headlines do. We'd be handing them to our kids — and to whoever holds power next.
That's the whole point of acting today. The Senate hasn't voted. One short message from you is on the record before it does.
§ 04 — Multiply it
One message is good.
A thousand is pressure.
Senators count the inbox. The fastest way to stop this is to get one more person to find their MP. Send this to someone who’d care.