Josh Tabish

I'm thrilled to join @ProgressChamber as Senior Director for Canada 🇨🇦 I look forward to shaping tech policies that can grow our tech sector, strengthen our economy & protect consumers. You can find the announcement and my first blog linked below.💡

The Liberal gov’t’s Online News & Streaming Acts just got flagged as trade barriers by the U.S. Canada-US Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc recently warned proponents of those laws: “We're managing through some ugly turbulence. Fasten your seat belts.” 👇 politico.com/newsletters/ca…

New from me: AI Minister Evan Solomon had said Canada's new national AI strategy would come in the first quarter. It hasn't. The policy is "ready to go," with room for updates, he said today, attributing delays to world events and parliamentary business. thelogic.co/briefing/new-a…

Saskatchewan: you can watch your dog run away for 10 days, but can't post about it on Facebook if you're under 16

We joined eleven companies in signing the Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, which pledges increased information sharing to catch scams faster and better protect people online. Learn more. foxnews.com/tech/tech-gian…

Bill C-22's lawful access plan quietly includes a new international production order with voluntary disclosures from Google, Meta and other tech giants in mind. The result: Canadian data subject to lower disclosure threshold, privacy protection, and review x.com/mgeist/status/…

Looking past the headlines, @angusreidorg’s data tells a more nuanced story about social media bans: most people say parents – not governments – should decide how teens use social media. angusreid.org/social-media-b…

🚨The UK's push for mandatory age-verification is threatening the very foundation of the open internet. Under the Online Safety Act, platforms like Wikipedia could soon be forced to ID check their users, effectively being anonymous editing. This would not just destroy the world's largest encyclopedia - it would expose volunteer contributors to data breaches, harassment, and even imprisonment by authoritarian regimes. Wikipedia relies on a diverse and often anonymous pool of editors to challenge bad actors and keep information accurate. We cannot let the government strangle the digital public square in the name of "safety". Read the full piece by @edtarnowski in @spectator below ⤵️ spectator.com/article/age-ve…

@Cory_Boehm They definitely have options. PMO says they don't have plans to prorogue but we'll see if a plan suddenly emerges after April 13...

@jdtabish It also feels like if the Liberals don't get a majority from the byelection there may be a fall federal election.

If the Liberals sweep the April 13 by-elections, they’ll have the magic number of seats needed to take control of committees and push bills through quickly theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

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Scoping in the Tech Giants: Bill C-22’s International Production Order and the Shift to a Less Privacy-Protective Cross-Border Disclosure System michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/scopin…

As a parent myself I understand the anxiety here. But bans won't make the internet safer for kids, they actually give platforms a free pass.

Great piece from @YaelOss on how Bill C-22 – as drafted – threatens encryption and opens the door to unauthorized foreign surveillance. thespec.com/opinion/contri…

.@mgeist on Bill C-22: "The provisions are ultimately going to be struck down, and that doesn’t help law enforcement or privacy. I mean, that really doesn’t help anyone." ottawacitizen.com/news/bill-c-22…

Federal court denies Competition Bureau access to Amazon data theglobeandmail.com/business/techn…

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 263: The Lawful Access Act Roundtable With David Fraser (@privacylawyer) and Robert Diab (@robertdiab) michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/the-la…

Bill C-22 is getting the spotlight on surveillance but it’s not the only bill expanding government power. nationalpost.com/opinion/john-c…

Learn more about Bill C-22, and particularly the new proposed "Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act" here: blog.privacylawyer.ca/2026/03/lawful…

In the coming days, Canada's opposition parties are going to have to decide whether they support Bill C-22, the #LawfulAccess Act. They--and all Canadians--need to consider whether this massive surveillance infrastructure is what we want. Or will tolerate.

Why the metadata preservation requirements in the Lawful Access Act 2026 (Bill C-22) likely violate the Charter, from @robertdiab.