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.......
(Excerpt) Read more at sputnikglobe.com ...
Canada remains one of the 56 British Commonwealth countries.
Once law enforcement is trained to properly read minds then people can be efficiently arrested before they commit the physical crimes. Our release of Hillary for her inner mind not intending to commit security breach crimes on her laptops showed the way.
In England this obviously dangerous looking woman (/S) was arrested for her thoughts of silent prayer (later overturned and released with an apology 6 months later):
((”....she was arrested and questioned... not about her written or spoken words but her thoughts.”))
https://care.org.uk/news/2023/01/mp-decries-arrest-of-women-arrested-for-praying-silently-near-abortion-clinic
You either have freedom of speech and thought (say and think what you want, no matter how retarded), or you have hate crimes (where something you say is so retarded the government can punish you for it).
You can’t have both.
Trudeau does not like hearing he is Castro jr.
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