It's an easy way for them to gain some reputation to monetize it later.

#2 DDG might not leave, Signal might do something maliciously compliant, and NordVPN will just leave.

I'm thinking the law passes but the courts kill it due to it violating our Charter. I also feel that the tech companies will not wait for the court case to conclude before leaving Canada.

Or

• the law passes with exceptions to specifically these 3 that threatened to leave

2 or 3

I guess signal has more to lose in reputation, than Canada brings them as country

For the other ones, I don't know

Because we have capitalism.

States are built on control. They literally only exist because they are the dominant power structure in a specific area.

States pushing for more freedom is antithetical.

4get.ca

I can now quickly identify various birds, minecraft areas, and those weird anime plushy things no problem.

If Signal were to make a backdoor for the government, that would compromise the security of all users world-wide.