Posted on 10/29/2024 11:07:26 AM PDT by marktwain
Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives.
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Anyone in Canada can seemingly snitch to this Commission, about any online content whatsoever – indeed, it encourages them to – and many will be more than happy to oblige.
The Commission also has the power of a superior court of record, and can act in that manner. However, the members of the Commission are not defined with regard to the necessity of any professional competence (such as legal training). Worse: it says explicitly in the bill that their actions are not “bound by any legal or technical rules of evidence” (!).
Canadians so affected by the bill – or suspected of being persons of interest – are compelled by specific provisions to comply in any manner the Commission deems appropriate, which also means turning over all of their material and electronic assets for examination and potential seizure.
Finally, apart from being free from any bounds of professional knowledge or evidentiary or procedural standards, the scope of action of the Commission is essentially unbounded:
“If the Commission has reasonable grounds to believe that an operator is contravening or has contravened this Act, it may make an order requiring the operator to take, or refrain from taking, any measure to ensure compliance with this Act.”
If you don’t think this power will be immediately weaponised by malevolent political and ideological actors, you’re a fool, because that is apparently the real purpose of the bill, camouflaged under the guise of protecting children from sexual predators. After all, these are the punishments, severe to the point of incomprehensibility: including 6% of the global revenue (not profit) of the person in question, per crime – and each day the offending material exists can be deemed
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Good stuff. Highly recommended.
Orwell, once a creature of the Left, knew exactly what they were capable and intent on doing this write “1984” and “Animal Farm”.
Trudeau and his ilk has understood these books not as a warning but a guideline to create a totalitarian state.
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Thanks for posting.
Canadians should report Turdeau and his party members en masse daily. Overwhelm the system. Do it from burner phones.
Fidelito Castreau, bastard son of Margaret Trudeau and the real Fidel Castro. The little apple didn’t fall far from the tree - unfaithful like his mother and a Communist like his dad.
Not dissimilar to Frank Marshall Davis and his hell spawn that refuses to go away.
Governor Tim Walz had a hotline number to report neighbors during the Covid lockdown ala using the tactics only his tyrannical totalitarian surveillance state CCP masters would approve.
Trudeau is a dead man walking, the only reason he is still in office is that no one wants a Winter election. He’s not going to pass anything.
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