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Strong, Sovereign, Free and Fair: OpenMedia’s 2025 Digital Policy Platform for Canada

Canada’s Internet is becoming a dangerously insecure place. Parliament keeps failing to pass basic privacy and safety protections, break up our Telecom monopolies, or effectively regulate Big Tech. American threats are teaching us that even our Internet’s infrastructure is dependent on foreign tech giants to function, putting our digital sovereignty at risk.

This federal election is our opportunity to turn things around. We’ve put together a comprehensive plan for a free and flourishing Canadian Internet; but we need your help to get parties to read and respond to it.¹

Will you write candidates and ask them to review these recommendations and tell you what they’ll do for your Internet if they’re elected?

To: Candidates in the 2025 federal election

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Dear {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName},

As a voter in your riding, I’m writing to ask what you’ll do to make Canada’s Internet a better place if you’re elected.

I’ve been deeply concerned by the last few years of digital policy in our country. Basic, long overdue legislation to protect our online privacy and safety keeps failing to pass our Parliament. Government action to break up Canada’s Big Telecom monopolists and fix abuses by foreign Big Tech firms are nowhere to be seen. The very few digital policy bills that have passed have had limited positive impact: the Online Streaming Act is tied up in court and at the CRTC, while the Online News Act has devastated small news outlets by cutting them off from Meta platforms.

OpenMedia has developed a comprehensive digital policy platform titled "Strong, Sovereign, Free and Fair: a 2025 digital policy platform for Canada" (https://openmedia.org/digital-policy-2025) which outlines steps our next government should take to improve the health, security and freedom of Canada’s Internet.

I urge you to consider these recommendations carefully, and would appreciate hearing your stance on how you plan to address the issues the platform raises. Your commitment to advancing strong Internet policies while respecting our rights will significantly influence my voting decision.

Sincerely,
{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}

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Canada’s Internet status quo is a policy disaster. Basic, long overdue regulations to protect our online privacy and online safety keep failing in a distracted and disinterested Parliament. Real action to break up our domestic Big Telecom monopolists and fix market abuses by foreign Big Tech is nowhere to be seen. The few digital bills that have passed have had limited positive impact: the Online Streaming Act is tied up in court and at the CRTC, while the Online News Act has devastated small news outlets by cutting them off from Meta’s platforms. Meanwhile Canada’s news crisis is only getting worse: over 500 news outlets have closed since 2008, creating local news deserts that leave millions of Canadians uninformed in our own backyard. The CBC has been slow to fill these gaps, committing to cover only a handful of disconnected communities in 2024.

As Canadians navigate sharply growing tension with the US, we’re realizing that even our physical Internet infrastructure is thinly laid, weakly linked, and profoundly vulnerable. Canada’s under-invested physical networks route vast quantities of our data through the US, even when we’re trying to communicate with each other in our own country. Even our cloud services—essential for modern businesses—are mostly hosted by U.S. companies, meaning they could cut off access at any time.

But here’s the good news: we have the tools at hand to fix every one of Canada’s Internet problems. Our 2025 election platform lays out a plan for rebuilding our digital sovereignty and creating a free, fair and flourishing Canadian Internet. This election, we’re urging all federal parties to adopt our vision and keep lobbyists and monopolists from steering Canada’s digital future. Review the full platform, and if you’re ready to ask candidates in your riding to respond to it, take action here!

Sources

Strong, Sovereign, Free and Fair: a 2025 digital policy platform for Canada – OpenMedia

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