Dear @JustinTrudeau In 2020 you prohibited my big game rifle, some small game rifles and my competition rifles. I replaced them, but today you prohibited every last replacement. I no longer have any legal hunting or competition rifles. I have no firearms that are useful as predator protection in the wilderness. I will take solace in the fact that I will keep them until you're all removed from office. And then I'll get them back and will continue the fight to enshrine property rights for all 🇨🇦. I will never forget that you have repeatedly used the threat of jail and death to steal my property, in order to prop up your failing @liberal_party. You've been playing politics with public safety for far too long - the game is up. Nobody believes anything you say, you're going to get crushed with a historic wipeout. #cdnpoli #ccfr

The “Canada forever” crowd wants Albertans to keep paying 50% taxes to an increasingly authoritarian government that censors speech, abuses emergency powers, and treats our province like a tax colony to fund their corruption. And they call us traitors for wanting out. Unreal.

Given only 38k of 2.5M gun owners participated, it's pretty obvious how gun owners feel about the bans.

Nearly 1 in 5 firearms declared under the federal government's assault-style firearms compensation program (better known as the property confiscation program) was a .22LR rimfire. New data from the Q-1113 parliamentary written return shows 11,883 of the 65,070 declared firearms (18.3%) were chambered in .22 Long Rifle, one of the most common and mild cartridges in existence. These are the kinds of firearms used for backyard plinking, youth training, small game hunting, and introductory target shooting. The single most declared firearm in the entire program was the GSG-16, a .22LR semi-automatic with 5,162 total declarations. Nearly all of the .22 LR firearms on the list (11,115 of 11,883) were previously non-restricted. These were ordinary non-restricted rifles that happened to look like something the government found objectionable. The government called this a ban on "assault-style firearms." Almost 1 in 5 of the declared firearms shoots the same cartridge as a Ruger 10/22, quite possibly the most popular semi-automatic rimfire rifle in the country. Calibres verified against the RCMP Firearms Reference Table. Data from Q-1113 (House of Commons, 45th Parliament).

Just in time for the confiscation program rollout so that the future statistics can demonstrate a change in gun violence which you can then claim to be the result of the gun bans even though it had nothing to do with it. It's never been about keeping Canadians safe. Ever. What you have done, and the way you have blatantly manipulated Canadians, should be a crime.

Government’s vision of social media, AI and privacy regulation: Super-regulator that strips power from Privacy Commish and leaves 5 people to set the rules, enforce, investigate, litigate, and advocate with their own rules of evidence and less independence x.com/mgeist/status/20666552…

Public Safety Minister @gary_srp committed to amendments to Bill C-22 in light of concerns about security risks, encryption and metadata retention. Instead, the government is shutting down the hearing with no further debate on changes to lawful access. michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/gove…

It’s these guys who softened sentencing to begin with. They break things and then want credit when they have to walk it back. The arrogance is staggering 🇨🇦🆘

No. Permanent amnesty is not an option. For clarity, licensed Canadian gun owners have drawn a line in the sand The handgun freeze and the OIC bans are on the wrong side of that line There can be no compromise on that.

Creating a censorship bureaucracy that regulates all content online in Canada isn't good or normal. The urgency around and rejection of the Digital Safety Commission needs to become much more intense as this is the most dangerous part of C-34 by far.

If you aren't following Mr. Geist you are missing out, He's a rare gem who is evidence based in his critiques of govt tech legislation. I've been a follower of his since the TPP in 2018 when then he was pointing out flaws within it to the then Harper govt. Recommend follow.

I’ll be working on a post to unpack the key elements of Bill C-36, but the big story is the stripping of the Privacy Commissioner's powers over private-sector privacy law after 25 years. The Digital Safety Commission (now Digital Safety and Data Protection Commission of Canada) will now be responsible for both regulating online speech and content moderation across the country's largest platforms and overseeing how every organization in Canada collects, uses, and discloses personal information. There is no precedent in Canada for this kind of digital super-regulator.

Gun bans aren't intended to fight violent crime. Social media bans aren't meant to protect children. Limits to speech aren't meant to fight hate. Wake up Canada, you're giving absolute control over your reality to the worst people on the planet.

The process to confiscate your most cherished belongings is "well underway" across Canada among the handful of people and two police departments who signed up for the extortion program... 🤡

I've said this before, but Mark Carney is a pitch-perfect Third World political leader. Randomly parachuting into the top job in his home country despite no prior political experience. Spending disproportionate amounts of time in Europe. Grand, unrealistic schemes with no chance of success.

I should also note that the older folks going "Well, this is great, it'll get them outside" don't understand that the world they grew up in doesn't exist any more. You can't just go hang out at the mall or a park without getting rousted. And everything is insanely expensive.

Also note that if there's any success to this social media ban, hundreds of thousands of teenagers will have friends, people they might have known for years... suddenly vanish out of their lives. They may not have alternate means of contact, or their friends will move on with their lives in their social media circles without switching platforms to accommodate the teen. We're going to be throwing tons and tons of teenagers into mourning for the loss of those friendships, and at the same time we're going to be blowing up their social circles for resilience and their coping strategies. This will literally kill. Children will die for this.

The government is going to guarantee a right to privacy in today’s privacy bill? The same government that wants to mandate metadata retention, require age verification for millions, and establish weaker privacy rules for political parties? michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/priv…

The government is tabling privacy reform today. That’s overdue, but its privacy track record is terrible: mandated age verification for millions, mandatory metadata retention, weaker privacy rules for political parties, and sidelining the Privacy Commish. michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/priv…

Thank you for pushing back on this. Not a permanent fake "amnesty." Repeal Revoke Rescind Reverse Retract Annul Cancel Undo ...