Bill C-26 has passed a key legislative step, with MPs on the House of Commons’s public safety committee sending it back to the full house for final votes. But they amended it significantly, with new language requiring the government to consider a range of consequences before issuing orders to companies to improve cybersecurity and to report in more detail on how those powers are used. (The Logic)

Talking point: Bill C-26 allows federal ministers to ban certain suppliers (such as Huawei) from Canadian telecom systems and supervise critical infrastructure operators’ cybersecurity measures. The amendments take up many—but not all—of the concerns that industry and civil liberties groups raised about the legislation. Nothing in the amended bill promises compensation for the costs of obeying the orders, or creates an appeal process for the power to cut people off from telecom services.