Canada

Is that electronic one about VPN logs?

The banker will save us from fascism guys you're going to have hold your noses and wipe out the third parties!

There's a lot of sucking up to Trump going on. One hopes that it's strategic and the elbows up stuff was genuine, not the other way around.

Time will tell. I lean towards the good option right now because Carney doesn't seem dumb enough to not recognise a bad deal.

Nope. You are not.

It also doesn't work. It completely gives in to conservative framing, and conservatives will always win against liberals on being "tough" on the border.

The proposed changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act give the government increased power over immigration documents in cases where public health or national security are at risk. Specifically it allows officials to cancel, suspend or change immigration documents immediately, pause the acceptance of new applications and cancel applications already in process if deemed in the public interest. Asylum claims would also have to be made within a year of entering the country, including for students and temporary residents. The immigration changes would also require irregular border crossers, people who enter Canada between official ports of entry, to make an asylum claim within 14 days of arriving in Canada.

Not the kind of legislation I would want a Tory government to inherit (and hence "strengthen").

The changes would also speed up voluntary departures by making removal orders effective the same day an asylum claim is withdrawn.

And this kind of shit is straight up alarming.

Basically, at a time when the US is going full on fascist with respect to immigrants, I want Canada moving confidently in the opposite direction.

As far as I can tell this doesn't directly mean deporting people, and Carney himself seems unlikely to want to go on an immigrant purge. The devil will be in the details, though, and I worry this could be built on in the future in a way that weakens democracy.

Very, very different scope:

"We need to ensure Canada's law enforcement is equipped with the tools they need to stay ahead of organized crime groups and crack down on their illicit activities."

Guns, drugs, pornography, refugees, factual information contradicting or embarrasing the powerful.

You might see a moral difference, but it's all the same from an enforcement perspective. It's a thing, and you want to keep it out. The real question is how much control you trust them with.

Have you heard of drones being used to smuggle guns? No physical person even needs to cross a border now. Personally, I can't think of a practical solution to this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/drone-carrying-bag-of-handguns-from-united-states-to-canada-intercepted-by-tree-1.6438267