E-7416 Opposition to Bill C-22 metadata provisions Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7416 — Opposition to Bill C-22 metadata provisions — with 20,484 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Jenny Kwan. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7416
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: September 22, 2026
- Sponsor: Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East)
- Category: Justice
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 20,484
- Daily increase: +24 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +150 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~21 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: May 25, 2026 — 496 data points recorded
Milestones
- 10,000 signatures reached on June 8, 2026 — total at that point: 10,144
- 5,000 signatures reached on May 28, 2026 — total at that point: 5,517
- 1,000 signatures reached on May 26, 2026 — total at that point: 1,181
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on May 26, 2026 — total at that point: 743
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 7,456 signatures
- British Columbia: 4,375 signatures
- Quebec: 4,160 signatures
- Alberta: 2,058 signatures
- Manitoba: 541 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 523 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 440 signatures
- New Brunswick: 321 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 285 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 72 signatures
- Yukon: 29 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 15 signatures
- Nunavut: 4 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| May 25, 2026 | 37 |
| June 4, 2026 | 8,871 |
| June 14, 2026 | 13,953 |
| June 21, 2026 | 16,067 |
| June 27, 2026 | 16,902 |
| July 5, 2026 | 17,273 |
| July 12, 2026 | 17,464 |
| July 20, 2026 | 17,645 |
| July 29, 2026 | 18,141 |
| August 4, 2026 | 19,821 |
| August 10, 2026 | 20,013 |
| August 16, 2026 | 20,306 |
| August 23, 2026 | 20,478 |
| August 24, 2026 | 20,484 |
Petition Text
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:
• Bill C-22 authorizes regulations requiring designated "core providers" to collect and retain metadata on all Canadians for up to one year without any individual being under suspicion or investigation, and grants the Minister of Public Safety power to impose these same requirements on any electronic service provider by ministerial order. Such metadata can reveal highly sensitive information including patterns of movement, association, medical activity, religious participation, and political activity;
• The definition of electronic service provider is broad enough to include any online service, including encrypted messaging apps, VPNs, email providers, banking apps, and cloud storage services;
• Bill C-22 grants the Minister of Public Safety broad authority to compel any electronic service provider to implement interception capabilities or technical assistance measures that could weaken encrypted systems, with compliance being mandatory. This creates cybersecurity vulnerabilities exploitable by criminals and hostile foreign actors, as demonstrated by the 2024 Salt Typhoon attack on United States telecoms;
• Suspicionless, indiscriminate bulk metadata retention and interception capabilities raise serious concerns under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects Canadians against unreasonable search and seizure; and
• The government retains broad regulatory power to redefine key terms including "encryption" and "systemic vulnerability" without returning to Parliament, rendering the bill's stated privacy protections unreliable.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to
1. Withdraw Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access, or vote against it at all stages;
2. Remove all suspicionless bulk metadata retention requirements from any future lawful access legislation; and
3. Explicitly prohibit any future lawful access legislation from requiring the weakening or breaking of encryption.
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