Cellphone users in Toronto fiddle with their phones in the middle of the massive Rogers network outage on Friday
The federal budget is proposing a long list of new laws covering everything from the so-called 'right to disconnect' to excessive cell phone charges. The 2024 federal budget, tabled Tuesday, includes dozens of new laws and amendments that cover everything from updates to the Criminal Code to how public servants unwind.Do you get calls and emails from your boss after hours? Do you hate it?
As with many proposed laws and legislative tweaks in the budget, it's not clear when this amendment would be introduced."Canadians still pay too much and see too little competition" with their cellular services, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said earlier this year. The government still has not offered details of the bill and it remains to be seen whether it can actually bring down the cost of cell service.These high-interest instalment loans can keep low-income Canadians, newcomers and those with limited credit histories trapped in a cycle of debt.Its latest budget promises to move forward on that reform while also amending the Criminal Code to ban offering or advertising credit at a criminal rate of interest.
The budget includes a promise to amend the Criminal Code to introduce new offences related to: auto theft involving the use of violence or links to organized crime; possession or distribution of an electronic or digital device for the purposes of committing auto theft; and laundering proceeds of crime for the benefit of a criminal organization.
Budget 2024 also says the government intends to amend the Radiocommunication Act to regulate the sale, possession, distribution and importation of devices used to steal cars. This would enable law enforcement agencies to remove devices believed to be used to steal cars from the Canadian marketplace.In what appears to be a dig at the Alberta provincial government, the budget is proposing to reallocate funding for unused judicial positions.
To do that, the government says will have to introduce legislation to facilitate the acquisition and use of public land for homes, and will need other levels of governments to agree.The federal government says it plans to explore new measures to expand access to "alternative financing products, like halal mortgages."
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