Canada's Extremist Attack on Free Speech

[I am Groot]

Always interesting to see what outsiders think of the Trudeau government's virtue signalling idiocy around controlling offensive speech.

 

A bill making its way through the Canadian Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people’s liberty in order to stop crimes they haven’t yet committed.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/canada-online-harms-act/678605/

[Legato]

[Zeitgeist]

On 6/8/2024 at 11:08 AM, I am Groot said:

Always interesting to see what outsiders think of the Trudeau government's virtue signalling idiocy around controlling offensive speech.

 

A bill making its way through the Canadian Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people’s liberty in order to stop crimes they haven’t yet committed.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/canada-online-harms-act/678605/

What’s shocking is how ignorant Canadians have become of how Canada is now perceived internationally, which is as a radical left anti-family, anti-capitalist, anti-male, anti-free speech, anti British, anti-white, anti-Jew, anti-American, anti-heterosexual screaming 20 year-old first year college activist.  That’s Canada on the world stage. Some countries contribute foreign aid or military support. Canada contributes gender language. Welcome to woke fascism.

Canadians aren’t aware of how stupid our country now looks because they’re the victims of a state-funded media that’s barely a free press anymore. Our PM takes his marching orders from the most radical elements of the US Democrat Party, China, and the UN   If Canadians don’t like it, then the PM imposes the Emergencies Act to stop protests.  Rights, what rights?  Follow the WHO script or get de-platformed.

The Canadian Parliament seems to be actively undoing Canadian rights and no one seems to know how to stop it. It makes me wonder how long Canada will survive on this path. To see the left wing Atlantic notice this about Canada illustrates how truly lost our country has become.

Edited June 10, 2024 by Zeitgeist

[WestCanMan]

• A bill making its way through Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people’s liberty in order to stop future crimes they haven’t yet committed.

That's a pretty broad stroke if/when the accused is the one trying to prove the negative, as in the Russian collusion case. 

The FBI had all the time in the world to run a public smear campaign and there was literally no way for Trump to prove that he never had a single inappropriate conversation over a 2-yr period.

• The Online Harms Act states that any person who advocates for or promotes genocide is “liable to imprisonment for life.”

But a cutesy dog-whistle for genocide, such as "river to the sea" will no doubt be categorized as 'harmless'.

• It defines lesser “hate crimes” as including online speech that is “likely to foment detestation or vilification” on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other protected categories. And if someone “fears” they may become a victim of a hate crime, they can go before a judge, who may summon the preemptively accused for a sort of precrime trial. If the judge finds “reasonable grounds” for the fear, the defendant must enter into “a recognizance.”

Telling the truth about mohamed & islam will still be illegal. 

[CdnFox]

On 6/9/2024 at 10:42 PM, Zeitgeist said:

What’s shocking is how ignorant Canadians have become of how Canada is now perceived internationally, which is as a radical left anti-family, anti-capitalist, anti-male, anti-free speech, anti British, anti-white, anti-Jew, anti-American, anti-heterosexual screaming 20 year-old first year college activist.  That’s Canada on the world stage. Some countries contribute foreign aid or military support. Canada contributes gender language. Welcome to woke fascism.

Canadians aren’t aware of how stupid our country now looks because they’re the victims of a state-funded media that’s barely a free press anymore. Our PM takes his marching orders from the most radical elements of the US Democrat Party, China, and the UN   If Canadians don’t like it, then the PM imposes the Emergencies Act to stop protests.  Rights, what rights?  Follow the WHO script or get de-platformed.

The Canadian Parliament seems to be actively undoing Canadian rights and no one seems to know how to stop it. It makes me wonder how long Canada will survive on this path. To see the left wing Atlantic notice this about Canada illustrates how truly lost our country has become.

Yeah. You see a lot of "Holy crap IN CANADA?" type comments in foreign media 

[ExFlyer]

Y'all wanted a kindlier gentler society and now that you are getting it, you are pissed? LOL

[CdnFox]

54 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

Y'all wanted a kindlier gentler society and now that you are getting it, you are pissed? LOL

I think that was george bush. Not really Canada. And he's a republican. So I think that shot might have been low and to the right