Canada’s version is currently hanging out in the Senate: https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/s-209
Here’s some background and detailed analysis about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJe3gB2Po4
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/05/herewegoagain/
And yeah C-2 is also bad. As you point out, these sorts of things are often coordinated and some of that is at least documented in the form of treaties. That was really not made clear in the case of C-2 but it very much is:
Given significant democratic, public interest, and human rights implications of Canada’s potential agreement to a data-sharing framework with foreign authorities in the United States and/or elsewhere, it is surprising that the federal government is now quietly introducing the powers necessary to ratify the 2AP, without making this intent explicit to the broader public when it introduced Bill C-2.
https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
I would be astonished if VPNs were allowed to continue if they actually succeed in identity-gating everything. eg. that’s next. Best we can do is keep talking about it, help people understand what’s happening.