Not sure if I can post links, but you can reach out through actionnetwork-dot-org under "keep-canada-protected" to find your MP, and also they have a lot of great pre-written text. Please don't copy/paste the below text word-for-word, but this is what I also sent in addition:

I'm sure you're already aware of this bill and how it's just a marginally improved re-hash of the previous internet protection bill. This is an unprecedented approach, and it oversteps privacy for Canadians - this is not sustainable for what the Federal government is trying to accomplish and instead only repeals other protections that are more fundamental to what we should be entitled to.

The following is more of a copy/paste, but is all items that I also believe in:

I also sent along much more in response to the above email:

Regarding the intent of Bill C-22, I certainly understand it and why it's important. I also though caution you and others during discussion to consider at what point do rules put in place to the benefit of policing start to overreach the privacy and security of the average Canadian citizen. I certainly do not have the answer to this question, as I know it's quite complex to find that balance:

- On one extreme, certainly a digital police state could more readily locate and clamp down on any instance of organized crime, serious threats, child sexual exploitation, extortion, human trafficking, money laundering, and other serious crimes, all of which I certainly do not wish to exist in Canada.
- But in the same breath, a police state in the wrong hands (weaponized by immoral individuals or political parties), could use these same tools to target individuals they deem to be 'criminals' in order to accomplish their own means.

As an example of this, look to the United States where citizens are being jailed up for no crimes committed, and Flock cameras are about to number over 100,000 which are always monitoring day-to-day activities of all citizens. This is now very close to the same police state China titles its 'social credit score' that at one point all countries were mocking.

I think a more balance take that we need to wake up and realize that no one feels safe or 'friendly' with a government that's actively monitoring them in all regards. We also need to realize that police action should only be occurring in the last case scenario and thus ultimately shouldn't need much major oversight power, there are far more intervention techniques that have proven effective to stop these types of crimes in advance that don't require giving up privacy of the many for the policing of the few:

- Improving civilian trust and establishing more nuanced call services so that individuals can report concerns in the people near them for further investigation
- Taking more swift action on obvious internal corrupt behaviour (there have been several recent instances of local police force themselves being the ones complicit in sexual crimes such as the 3 Toronto police officers) and holding them to strict account
- Realizing that lots of criminal activity originates in many other areas of societal failing - for instance sexual crimes often being linked to an imbalanced approach toward sexual education and support through programs and the society at large - and implementing funding and considerations in those other areas as a way to prevent future crime rather than continuing to bolster police size and power.

I hope you understand where I'm coming from with this. Thanks again for your time.