This article offers a transnational perspective on Canada’s legislative response to globally expanded national security intelligence activities in the War on Terror since 2001. I situate Canada’s new legislation against the backdrop of US and Japanese legislative responses and analyze the transition, including Bill C-13 (2014), Bill C-44 (2015), Bill C-51 (2015), and Bill C-59 (2019). I argue that the thrust of this legislative trend has been the active legalization of previously illegal surveillance activities by security intelligence agencies, rather than passive ineffectiveness in restricting state mass surveillance enabled by information and communication technologies. The transition is in synch with a global legislative trend that lowers the legal standards of privacy and personal data protection and weakens checks and balances in democratic governance. As a result, mass surveillance has increasingly undermined and regulated the rule of law, not vice versa.

本文提供了加拿大对自 2001 年以来在反恐战争中全球扩展的国家安全情报活动的立法反应的跨国视角。我将加拿大的新立法置于美国和日本立法反应的背景下，并分析了过渡，包括法案 C-13 ( 2014 年）、C-44 号法案（2015 年）、C-51 号法案（2015 年）和 C-59 号法案（2019 年）。我认为，这种立法趋势的主旨是安全情报机构将以前的非法监视活动主动合法化，而不是被动地限制信息和通信技术支持的国家大规模监视无效。这一转变与全球立法趋势同步，该趋势降低了隐私和个人数据保护的法律标准，削弱了民主治理的制衡。结果，大规模监视越来越破坏和规范法治，反之亦然。