“The statement stressed that the government is not blocking Canadians from accessing the app or using it to create content.”
Ottawa says TikTok’s Toronto and Vancouver offices are injurious to national security and won’t say why. The app, the part CSIS says makes user data available to the government of China, stays on every Canadian phone. Champagne’s advice to users is to keep their “eyes wide open.” The government shut down the jobs and kept the risk.