Absolutely. You don't have to be a pedo or criminal or whatever to want privacy. We all want at least some level of privacy, and many people have an actual need for it.

I'm American, and we've had multiple similar efforts to destroy encryption "to protect the children"

In reality (and this is what they want) it will make it exponentially more dangerous for women needing abortions and LGBT people in dangerous situations. Journalists and confidential informants lose huge levels of the anonymity required to even investigate and report on things.

And don't even start on the floodgates of espionage government agencies will do.