According to the Canadian Justice Department, the bill aims to:
* Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to define a new discriminatory practice of communicating hate speech online, and to provide individuals with additional remedies to address hate speech;
*Add a definition of “hatred” to section 319 of the Criminal Code based on Supreme Court of Canada decisions; and
*Create a new peace bond in the Criminal Code designed to prevent hate propaganda offences and hate crimes from being committed, and make related amendments to the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Always a one way street.
No good will. No good intentions A cudgel to be used is all it is.
Like all dictatorships.
They should release a book containing all the words, sentences and phrases that are considered hate speech; I guess that’ll include the Bible.
They are outlawing telling the truth.
How will they define “hate”? We can expect that “hate” against some groups will be ok, even praiseworthy, but “hate” against other groups will be strictly punished.
YIKES! Now this is SCARY!
The word “inclusive” indicates who will be protected by this law and who won’t.
When you see Human Rights Act, Human Rights Campaign etc you may discover that they are quite anti-Christian.
Deep States have to take out the internet.
Can’t let the people you’re trying to oppress have access to info.
Canada needs to feel the wrath of Republicans when they overcome cheating and get back into office.
This is frightening. I am sure the Democrats will love it and be plotting on how to do the same thing in the US.
But Canucks will proudly beat their chest what a free country they live in.
it is quite comical in a disturbing kinda sense. No much future for this country....
“All Canucks are whiny wankers, eh.”
Come and get me, Dudly Doright. I dare ya.
So, if I post something they consider hateful in America on a Canadian-based website, can I then be extradited to answer charges?
I can see it now...
A Canadian citizen posts, “Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s offspring, and he needs to be defeated this election.”
Hate speech. 40k Canadian.
Which goes into Trudeau’s campaign coffers.
Nice, if you’re a tyrant.
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“...criminalize “hate speech” online...”
A couple of things to display the failure of socialism like even Canada’s and this can’t happen Constitutionally in the US:
Hate speech is not a victimless crime unless violence is
to follow from the speaker. Speech in the US is considered free within reason and opinions are like posteriors. This is supported by law:
In the United States, there are no laws against hate speech. Due to rights protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, a person can say just about anything he or she wants to another person or group. By itself, such speech is allowed to take place without penalty under the law.
A person hurling insults, making rude statements, or disparaging comments about another person or group is merely exercising his or her right to free speech. This is true even if the person or group targeted by the speaker is a member of a protected class. According to U.S. law, such speech is fully permissible and is not defined as hate speech.
Under the First Amendment, American citizens have the legal right to say whatever they’d like to. While much ado is often made about so-called “hate speech”, no satisfactory definition for this type of speech exists within the confines of the law. Not to be confused with “hate crimes,” a person’s speech does not affect another person’s physical condition or personal property and is, therefore, not punishable by law.
A 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case ruled it was perfectly legal for Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan member in Ohio, to speak in favor of violence toward minorities as long as he was not directly encouraging people to engage in violence or other activities that were against the law. So, while the court did not deem his speech to have broken the law, a line was drawn between speech supporting or favoring violence and speech that actually directly incites violence. The former is protected by law, but the latter is an actual crime.
https://thelawdictionary.org/article/the-legalities-of-hate-speech/
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They’re just tired of people making fun of their girly Trudeau disaster.
This is when you start looking for new places with a better view.
America should sanction Canada for trampling on free speech of its citizens .
Of course we won’t ..,but we should .