OTTAWA — Canadians could face higher phone and internet bills under the Carney government’s proposed expansion of police access to data unless Ottawa covers compliance costs for telecom providers, the industry and a leading adviser who helped craft the legislation warn.
Those predictions come as Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his second push for legislative reforms that would make it easier for Canadian police and national security agencies to intercept private communications, which they say is desperately needed to catch up with other Western countries and modernize Canada’s outdated laws for the digital age.
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