The 127-page Strong Borders Act amends more than a dozen other laws. Among many other things, it gives authorities more power to get user information from online services, lets border officers search outgoing cargo and Canada Post open letter mail (in some circumstances); limits asylum claims; allows sharing sex-offender information with other countries; and restricts large deposits into other people’s bank accounts. (The Logic)

Talking point: The Liberals promised most components of the bill last December, when Justin Trudeau was prime minister and Donald Trump, not yet U.S. president, was threatening tariffs over fentanyl and migrants illicitly entering the United States from Canada. But then Trudeau prorogued Parliament and it’s only now that the House of Commons is sitting again that the legislation has been introduced. A separate bill on the Commons agenda is to approve the money to pay for the new measures.