The National Post reports in its Wednesday, May 20, edition that instead of addressing on-line crimes like extortion and child sex abuse, Ottawa is proposing Bill C-22, the "Act Respecting Lawful Access." The Post's guest columnist Jamie Sarkonak writes that this bill aims to require service providers to create a government-accessible backdoor for encrypted communications, allowing the federal minister of public safety to access Canadians' private conversations without court oversight, only needing approval from the federal information commissioner. Forget that organized crime infiltrates police and shares sensitive data with gangs, or that securing a government back door from cybercriminals is impossible. The Liberals are moving to require all services to retain your data -- such as chats, browsing history and location -- for a year due to fleeting criminal communications. Because the act of reaching into the data pool of an on-line sex trafficker/extortionist might alert them to an investigation, the federal public safety minister can order that his approval of a fishing expedition into your data be kept secret from you, subject to very limited oversight from the courts.