{"id":12619,"date":"2022-10-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/10\/05\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:00:00","slug":"en-canada-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/10\/05\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Internet Governance Forum 2022 \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Canada IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Canada IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>In 2022 the Canadian IGF was not a single-day conference but a series of online sessions from March to November, with an agenda shaped by Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 4 May session &#39;A Digital Iron Curtain?&#39; weighed internet sanctions against Russia; June examined competition policy for the platform economy; November debated online safety regulation and a proposed new digital regulator.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Can war justify fragmenting the internet? Canada&#39;s answers \u2014 cautious on sanctions, ambitious on platform accountability \u2014 spoke to a question every democracy now faces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Canadian Internet Governance Forum 2022<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Canada IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>Canadian Internet Governance Forum 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>March\u2013November 2022 (a series of online sessions listed for March, May, June and November; the May session took place on 4 May)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online, as a series of short virtual events spread across the year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>CIGF steering committee, with secretariat support from CIRA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Canada IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. A Digital Iron Curtain? \u2014 Sanctions and the Global Internet<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: CIGF Talks &#39;A Digital Iron Curtain?: Sanctions and the Global Internet in Times of Conflict&#39; (4 May 2022, online; Farzaneh Badii of Digital Medusa, Tim Denton of ISOC Canada, Dmitri Vitaliev of eQualitie, Job Snijders; moderated by Alyssa Quinn, CIRA)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The session responded to Ukraine&#39;s formal requests that ICANN remove Russian ccTLDs and RIPE NCC suspend Russian IP addresses \u2014 internet-specific sanctions becoming a live policy question [1][5][6]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists concluded against disconnection: it would reinforce the narrative that the West is against Russia, cut dissidents off from outside information, and set a precedent for disconnecting other countries [1][5][6]<\/li>\n<li>The report records that when countries are unclear about sanctions impacting the internet, a vacuum is left for individual technology companies to decide \u2014 and weighed the merits and limits (effectiveness, mission creep) of the multistakeholder blocklist mechanism proposed in an open letter [1][5][6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Competition Policy for the Platform Economy \u2014 Fit for the 21st Century?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: CIGF Talks &#39;A Canadian Competition Policy for the Platform Economy&#39; (June 2022, online; Elisa Kearney of Davies, John Lawford of PIAC, Vass Bednar of McMaster, John Pecman; moderated by Alexandra Posadzki of the Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three camps on Competition Act reform were mapped: status quo advocates favouring targeted revisions, neo-Brandeisians arguing Big Tech dominance stifles innovation, and proponents of the European model linking competition to broader social goals [2]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists distinguished privacy matters (the Tim Hortons app&#39;s location tracking) from competition issues (Amazon&#39;s use of third-party retailer data) [2]<\/li>\n<li>Reform, they argued, must reflect Canada&#39;s unique position as a federation and secondary market next to the US, with privacy and competition law reformed in coordination [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Safety First? \u2014 Online Safety Regulation and a New Digital Regulator<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: CIGF Talks &#39;Safety First? Approaching Internet Regulation in Canada&#39; (November 2022, online; Dr. Emily Laidlaw of the University of Calgary, moderated by Michael Lee-Murphy of The Wire Report)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The session reported the two points of consensus from the government&#39;s Online Safety Expert Advisory Group, which Dr. Laidlaw co-chaired and which concluded in June 2022: a duty for companies to act responsibly, and a new regulator \u2014 not the CRTC [3]<\/li>\n<li>Obligations should be proportionate to risk; the report records that platform companies pose the most risk to Canadians online, while infrastructure intermediaries that do not host content should never be required to action content [3]<\/li>\n<li>Elon Musk&#39;s takeover of Twitter served as a case study in the crisis of institutional trust and the risks of platforms operating without legal oversight or mandate [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Year-Long Series Experiment \u2014 After a Year Without an Annual Meeting<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The 2022 series as a whole (March, May, June and November sessions)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After skipping the annual meeting in 2021 (holding only two CIGF Talks webinars), the CIGF adopted a new format for 2022: a series of short virtual events over the course of the year, as the official site explained [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>The stated aims were more continuous engagement with the community and flexibility suited to the work-from-home environment [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>The series format lasted one year; in 2023 the CIGF returned to a single-day annual meeting \u2014 its first hybrid event after three years online [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Where was the Canadian IGF 2022 held?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nowhere in particular \u2014 CIGF 2022 was a series of online sessions in March, May, June and November, a one-year experiment suited to the work-from-home era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest controversy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Internet sanctions after Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine. Should Russia be cut off from the global internet? Panellists said no: ineffective, isolating for dissidents, and corrosive to the internet&#39;s core principles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Platform competition, online safety regulation and wartime internet sanctions are the same questions every democracy has been grappling with since 2022 \u2014 Canada&#39;s session-by-session answers make a useful comparison.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Canada IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-canada-igf-2022-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Canada IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 About Canada IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Canada IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2022 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianigf.ca\/2022-2\/\">A Digital Iron Curtain?: Sanctions and the Global Internet in Times of Conflict\uff082022\u5e745\u6708\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Canadian IGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianigf.ca\/2022-3\/\">A Canadian Competition Policy for the Platform Economy\uff082022\u5e746\u6708\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Canadian IGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianigf.ca\/2022-4\/\">Safety First? Approaching Internet Regulation in Canada\uff082022\u5e7411\u6708\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Canadian IGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianigf.ca\/cigf\/\">Canadian IGF \u2014 Past Events\uff082022\u5e744\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306e\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Canadian IGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220428193128\/https:\/\/canadianigf.ca\/\">Canadian IGF \u30db\u30fc\u30e0\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff082022\u5e744\u670828\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\u3002\u9023\u7d9a\u30d0\u30fc\u30c1\u30e3\u30eb\u5f62\u5f0f\u306e\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ab\u30ca\u30c0IGF\uff08Internet Archive\u4fdd\u5b58\u7248\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220514230612\/https:\/\/canadianigf.ca\/agenda\/\">Canadian IGF Agenda\uff082022\u5e745\u670814\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\u30025\u67084\u65e5\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306e\u544a\u77e5\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ab\u30ca\u30c0IGF\uff08Internet Archive\u4fdd\u5b58\u7248\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 5 October 2022, 14:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022 the Canadian IGF was not a single-day conference but a series of online sessions from March to November, with an agenda shaped by Ru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,3,11],"tags":[163,665,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-canadaigf2022","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}