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What’s Inside Trudeau’s ‘Orwellian’ Speech Law Threatening Jail Time for Thought Crimes?
Sputnik News ^ | 3/14/24 | Ilya Tsukanov

Posted on 03/14/2024 9:31:24 AM PDT by marshmallow

Canadians got their first rude awakening about the limits to their constitutional freedoms during the Freedom Convoy protests in February of 2022, when, in a crackdown on truckers objecting to draconian Covid restrictions, the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act, allowing authorities to jail organizers and seize their bank accounts.

Sweeping “online safety” legislation in Canada proposed Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government threatening penalties up to life imprisonment for speech crimes, and real sentences for thought crimes, have civil rights groups sounding the alarm.

The legislation, known as the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63), was tabled by Justice Minister Arif Virani in February, and proposes amending Canada’s Criminal Code to “promote the online safety of persons in Canada, reduce harms caused to persons in Canada as a result of harmful content online and ensure that the operators of social media services…are transparent and accountable with respect to their duties.”

What’s Wrong With the Bill?

At first glance, some of the legislation’s content seems reasonable, with Virani leaning into the bill’s benevolent goal of “protecting” children “from online sexual exploitation, hate, and cyberbullying.” The draft law would require the mandatory reporting of online child pornography, the deletion of content advocating self-harm, and punishments for persons accused of “advocating genocide” or “hate crimes” based on “race, national or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.”

Upon deeper inspection, however, the problems with the legislation quickly start to become evident, with penalties for speech crimes ranging from two, five, or ten years in jail or even “imprisonment for life,” and the extremely broad and liberal definition of “hate crimes” (including crimes a judge deems someone “will commit” at some point the future) sparking concerns that the law will be used to crack.......

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TOPICS: Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackfacehitler; censorship; onlineharmsact; orwellian; trudeau
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1 posted on 03/14/2024 9:31:24 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Daddy did it... in Cuba.


2 posted on 03/14/2024 9:34:09 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: marshmallow
Canada has a small population, yet it's budgeted over $3 Billion for Ukriane in 2024.

Because ... Freedom!

3 posted on 03/14/2024 9:34:49 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: marshmallow

- End US Mil cooperation/sales to Canada

- Cut off all US LE agency interaction with Canadian police agencies

- Establish firebases all along Canadian-US “border”

- Equip said firebases with artillery and surface to surface missiles

- Designate Ottawa as a Cuban surrogate regime and treat accordingly


4 posted on 03/14/2024 9:34:52 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: marshmallow
Canadians will blithely submit.

It's who they are. It's what they do.

5 posted on 03/14/2024 9:36:06 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: marshmallow

Sounds like slowly but surely we are getting there with ignorant people continuing to electing shady, crooked, left leaning politicians. And then they wonder what happened? And with Trudeau, the apple did not fall far from the tree, having an illustrious dad like Fidel.


6 posted on 03/14/2024 9:38:41 AM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: billorites

however, the ones that live way up in the Yukon and Northwest territories will continue on with their lives as usual as they have for countless years.


7 posted on 03/14/2024 9:40:38 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Jaysin

unless they speak ‘out of line’ online- they will be tracked down by the dictator’s minions


8 posted on 03/14/2024 9:45:31 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: marshmallow

Justin is mentally ill he inherited it from his mother and he knows he’ll get the boot next election so his setting up one party rule , wait Canada has one party rule now


9 posted on 03/14/2024 9:49:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SpaceBar
Daddy did it... in Cuba.

A chip off the old block!

10 posted on 03/14/2024 9:50:28 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed because they intend on doing things that you would shoot them for.)
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To: marshmallow
Trudeau’s 'hate crimes' of today might be the opposite ten years from now. Maybe in ten years speaking badly of MAGA supporters will deserve jail time.

Yes, even in Canada.

Trudeau and Biden should rethink some of their totalitarians bullsh*t - it can backfire big time.

11 posted on 03/14/2024 9:51:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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well they’ll need gas powered vehicles just to go up there and get them. thats lots of carbon footprinting.

Those who do actually live in the middle of nowhere like the Yukon, will be the ones who survive the muslim and leftist invasion/destruction that is being wrought upon the world right now.

I know for sure that ghetto hoods just ain’t going to drive up to Whitehorse once they destroy their own cities


12 posted on 03/14/2024 9:53:19 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: billorites

The Canadian frog is almost cooked.


13 posted on 03/14/2024 9:56:56 AM PDT by TheConservator ( For Libtards, barring Trump from the presidency is worth destroying 235 years the rule of law)
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To: marshmallow

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


14 posted on 03/14/2024 9:59:15 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: marshmallow
This is how the Canadian government handles protests...
15 posted on 03/14/2024 10:03:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Canada is lost. They have their sights set on the USA next.

Electing Trump will prevent that. Electing biden will make it happen sooner.


16 posted on 03/14/2024 10:07:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: Jaysin

[[well they’ll need gas powered vehicles just to go up there and get them.]]

LOL good point- i can picture the authorities there standign around in their little office looking puzzled and confused, not knowing how to drive all the way out there because of their co2 footprint lol


17 posted on 03/14/2024 10:19:46 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: marshmallow

“Minister Virani is an Ismaili Muslim who came to Canada in 1972 as a Ugandan Asian refugee.”

Well surprise surprise. Another Muslim invader criminalizing any and all opposition to the Islamic invasion of the “west.”


18 posted on 03/14/2024 10:24:42 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: BenLurkin

Seventy percent of the population approved of how the trucker protests were handled.

Institutional capture and propaganda works. I’ve seen it here in my lifetime.

The other thing that enables all this is “conservative” politician betrayal.

The Conservatives will “oppose” this Online Harms Act. But when they are elected next year, they won’t repeal it.

And it will be used against their own supporters while they are in power. Just as Ofcom was never repealed by the UK “Conservatives”, and it is used against people like Mark Steyn, while the UK Conservatives are in power.


19 posted on 03/14/2024 10:28:48 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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Trudeau is an uppity little snot.

Jailing his opponents is farther along than it is here but believe me, that's where they're heading with us.
20 posted on 03/14/2024 10:29:06 AM PDT by ssfromla (All of this is to see how far they can push us and I have to tell)
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