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Politics! Surveillance backlash, separatism drama

5/29/202632 min

CBC parliamentary reporters Aaron Wherry and Catherine Tunney are back to talk about the big political stories of the week including: Prime Minister Mark Carney losing high-profile MP Steven Guilbeault over climate policies, digital surveillance blowback from Bill C-22, and how Carney will handle Alberta separatism.

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Clips

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Signal Could Leave Canada
Decoding Carney’s Hot-Mic Moment
Resignation’s Political Fallout
Warrantless Data ‘Phonebook’
Climate Caucus Rumblings
‘DNA Moment’ For Investigators

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

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  2. Jayme Poisson· Host0:18

    [upbeat music] Hey, everybody. It's Jamie. Lots to talk about today on the federal politics front. Mark Carney lost high-profile MP Steven Guilbeault over climate policies. He is navigating a referendum on separation in Alberta. To do that, Aaron Wherry is here with me from our Ottawa bureau. Aaron, hey.

  3. Speaker 30:47

    Hey, Jamie.

  4. Jayme Poisson· Host0:48

    But before we do all of that, our colleague Kat Tunney is also joining us because I do really wanna talk about the government's lawful access bill, Bill C-22, that is just generating a ton of controversy. Kat, hey.

  5. Catherine Tunney· Guest1:00

    Hey.

  6. Jayme Poisson· Host1:02

    Thanks for stopping by as well. So why don't we start with you? This bill has been so controversial that you're now reporting the government is planning to change it, but before we get to that, the current version of the bill had created all this blowback because it would require telecoms, internet providers, and digital companies, so Meta, Apple, et cetera, to make these changes to their systems to give our police and intelligence services the power to surveil Canadians'

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